Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Owen Thomas]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 22:18, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 12:09, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 21:43, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I turn the touchpad off with
> >> synclient touchpadoff=1
> >> and on with
> >> synclient touchpadoff=0
> >>
> >> To show all settings
> >> synclient -l
> >
> >
> > I believe you are repeating yourself Colin. :)
>
> In what way?  I don't think I posted that before, if I did then my
> memory must be failing even more rapidly than I thought, as I had to
> go and search for it in my notes to find it.
>

Perhaps I'm misattributing. I've just now checked my email and can't find
anything either. I'm pretty sure something was mentioned; perhaps there are
other specific commands.


>
> >
> > I am hoping someone can maybe set up a demon which can "react to an
> event" assigned to a keyboard shortcut and run this command; I'm probably
> showing my ignorance. In another one and a half years, I'll grab 22.04 and
> toggle my touchpad with glee. Lovely!
>
> In Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts you can setup a key combination to
> run the commands.
>

Hmmm... It does sound nice. Hmmm...
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