External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Owen Thomas]

On Tue., 22 Dec. 2020, 7:47 am Colin Law, <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 20:36, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't Ubuntu automatically support touchpad disablement like any
> other self respecting OS?
>
> It does, it is, oddly enough, in Settings > Mouse & Touchpad, but I
> thought you wanted to enable/disable it with hotkeys or a switch or
> something like that rather than the trouble of going into the
> settings.
>

Is that always true? Perhaps I'm wrong again, but I thought I checked
fairly comprehensively on my old Latitude E5570 (I had the thing for at
least five years), but couldn't locate the feature. However, yes, a mere
hotkey to toggle would be a good solution because the navigation you
describe is tedious - especially when the touchpad is disabled and one only
has the keyboard to navigate. Perhaps Windows indeed has a similar problem
although I probably should claim ignorance of Windows whenever I make
statements about that OS;  I haven't used it in more than a decade.

I did mention to Dell when I bought my new laptop that the user should be
able to toggle touchpad sensitivity with one of their proprietary Fn key
combinations, but I'm not sure that they listened.

  Owen
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