External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Owen Thomas]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 19:59, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gnome doesn't use the synaptics drivers any more, using libinput
> instead, the result being that synclient no longer works.  So I am not
> sure what is going on.
>

Assigned hotkeys ctrl+super+A to disable, ctrl+super+Z to enable using
synclient. This appears satisfactory.

>From the man page, synclient cannot return the current value of a setting,
so assigning a toggle function to a single key isn't possible. (?) Maye it
is possible with other solutions given in this thread - I'll look back over
it later.

Thanks for this suggestion Colin. I know it was made a while ago, but I
really was hanging out for a solution that didn't involve the OS. It is
bemusing to see, 1: a good feature removed from the touchpad device for a
perverse reason I cannot grasp, and 2: that the feature doesn't look like
being reintroduced any time soon.

  Owen.
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