External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[P. Echols]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:17 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 08:50, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, as mentioned in my reply to Volker, switching to Ubuntu, non
> wayland works and now both synclient and my script with xinput work as
> desired.
> > I assume that unity uses Wayland as does the default desktop.  Seems
> like there should be a way to control these devices from CLI / script when
> using wayland.
>
> No, Unity does not use Wayland.  Also I do not think that Wayland is
> the default for Ubuntu.
>
> Colin
>

Hmm, Ok.  Well there is something going on with Unity as implemented in
this laptop that is preventing xinput and synclient from disabling the
touchpad.  I've switched to the Gnome on Xorg in display manager and it
works fine.  I don't prefer this implementation of gnome, But I resisted
Unity when it came out.  I guess I'll get used to it.

Thanks again,
Patton
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