Mouse touchpad (was Re: Cannot encrypt archive?)

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 5:36 PM Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What I'm trying to hint at here is just a keystroke. One shouldn't have to plow one's way through a set of menu options while one is entering some text to disable one's touchpad, only to need to plow through the same set of menus so to re-enable it when one wants to use the touchpad.
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If you can figure out which app does the Mouse and Touchpad controls,
you can find out if it has command line options, which would make it a
candidate for a keystroke or pair.  I don't use Ubuntu, and not sorry.

> Perhaps this can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut (can it? - it looks like I might have to be arsed to find out) and that might fix my problems - at least until I need to learn how to do it all over again sometime next decade. However, it would be better for there to be a keyboard shortcut configured "out of the box" because I think most people (yes, thankfully not all people) have lives that are centred on activities other than configuring their computer to respond to keyboard shortcuts, and so most new users would really appreciate not having to learn about how to configure their touchpad disablement feature to respond to a keyboard shortcut; most people (not all, thankfully) want their operating system to enable their lives, they do not want their operating system to become the focus of their lives .
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Personally, I use a mouse with my laptop and run with the touchpad
disabled all the time.  It is not of any use to me at all, and if my
mouse dies and I can't do without mouse controls, the joystick is
enough - it doesn't interfere with my typing.  The touchpad does, too
often, and I see no need to tolerate that.

Mark