<div dir="ltr"><div>Ubuntu does many things very well, but I have been thinking for some time that it could make life easier by allowing the user of the OS installed on a Dell to disable and re-enable the touchpad as well as controlling other aspects of the touchpad which can frustrate and confound with a simple set of keystrokes. Many users would be thankful that they don't themselves have to resort to thinking about how to hack together a bespoke solution for what appears to be features that the hardware appears to support and may have done so for some time. It would be lovely to see this enhancement on a future release of the OS. </div>Other than my sage advice as to what capabilities I think would be valuable in a future version of Ubuntu, I'm not a contributor. Perhaps those who are might think this is a good enhancement to make. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 27 December 2017 at 19:59, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 27 December 2017 at 09:46, Karl Auer <<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>> wrote: > I've started a new thread as this seemed to have nothing to do with > autoselection of text. > > There is a settings option to turn your touchpad on and off. It seems > to be global. It does not affect a mouse, trackball or touchpoint, just > the touchpad. OR use the same method as given below for a touchpoint, > making the obvious substitutions. > > To turn your mouse off, unplug it :-) > > To turn off your trackpoint, use xinput list to locate the device, then > to list the properties of it, then to set the enabled property to off. > E.g. on my Lenovo: > > xinput list > ... > ...AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick id=13 ... > ... > > xinput -list-props 13 > Device 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick': > Device Enabled (143): 1 > ... > > xinput -set-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick" "Device Enabled" 0 > > Regards, K. > > PS: Written in haste. Usual provisos. So you have an Alps driver. Another poster had a Synaptics driver. Neither of our Dell owners seems to know what trackpad they have or what, if any, driver they are using. As I already said: they need to make sure they're using the right driver. -- Liam Proven • Profile: <a href="https://about.me/liamproven" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://about.me/liamproven</a> Email: <a href="mailto:lproven@cix.co.uk">lproven@cix.co.uk</a> • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: <a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a> Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: <a href="tel:%2B44%207939-087884" value="+447939087884">+44 7939-087884</a> • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: <a href="tel:%2B420%20702%20829%20053" value="+420702829053">+420 702 829 053</a> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>