Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 12:20, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> ...
> I think I've figured out how this can be done. In Gnome Control Center -> Keyboard shortcuts [translated back from German to English], there can be created new shortcuts (with the "+" at the bottom of
> the list). You can enter a command, which is to be executed when the shortcut keys are pressed. So you could create two shell scripts for touchpad-on and touchpad-off, which turn the touchpad on/off,
> using Colin Law's commands (see the other message). Then you'd add shortcuts for those two commands.
>

It is Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts in 20.04, I think it was the same
in 18.04.  I shouldn't be necessary to create scripts, it should be
possible to enter the synclient commands directly into the shortcut
setup dialog.

Colin