Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 11:34, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> I'd love for that something to be knitted. I know there is a command one can enter to turn the touchpad on and off - perhaps a few years ago now I wrote to this very list and got the low down then.
>

I turn the touchpad off with
synclient touchpadoff=1
and on with
synclient touchpadoff=0

To show all settings
synclient -l

You might need to install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to get it.

Colin