Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Montag, den 19.10.2020, 11:41 +0100 schrieb 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.

I turn the touchpad off like this:

if [ "$DISPLAY" == ":0" ]; then
    xinput --disable "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
fi



Bye
Volker
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