External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 08:50, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, as mentioned in my reply to Volker, switching to Ubuntu, non wayland works and now both synclient and my script with xinput work as desired.
> I assume that unity uses Wayland as does the default desktop.  Seems like there should be a way to control these devices from CLI / script when using wayland.

No, Unity does not use Wayland.  Also I do not think that Wayland is
the default for Ubuntu.

Colin