<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 10:32 PM Volker Wysk <<a href="mailto:post@volker-wysk.de">post@volker-wysk.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2020, 18:16 -0800 schrieb P. Echols:<br>
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> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 8:04 AM Volker Wysk <<a href="mailto:post@volker-wysk.de" target="_blank">post@volker-wysk.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hi!<br>
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> > if [ "$DISPLAY" == ":0" ]; then<br>
> > xinput --disable "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"<br>
> > fi<br>
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> I have been doing something similar on my laptop. A script that toggles containing the command:<br>
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> xinput --disable 13<br>
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> Where 13 is the xid of the TouchPad. Now that i have upgraded to 20.04, this no longer works. In fact the command typed in a terminal doesn't work. Neither does it work formulated as Volcker suggests, using the exact device name as shown by:<br>
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> $xinput --list-props 13<br>
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> Any thoughts?<br>
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Are you happening to run Wayland? If so, you could try it with X. You should<br>
be able to select the one in your display manager (the login screen).<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had been running unity (I've grown accustomed to the interface} Switching to Ubuntu, not Wayland, solves this particular problem. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I assume Unity is using Wayland? Do you know if it is possible to use the unity desktop, but not wayland?<br></div></div></div>