Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Owen Thomas]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 20:52, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:

> > With "mousepad" you mean "touchpad", right?
>

Yep sorry. My mistake.


> >
> > I'm using a command in my .bashrc file, in order to turn off the
> touchpad
> > of my laptop. It's easily done when it should always turned off (because
> you're
> > using a mouse and don't need it). If you want to be able to turn it on
> and
> > off via a keyboard shortcut, it might be possible to knit something.
>

I'd love for that something to be knitted. I know there is a command one
can enter to turn the touchpad on and off - perhaps a few years ago now I
wrote to this very list and got the low down then.

Yes, all this probably makes me lazy sod, but I suppose no lazier than
millions of other Ubuntu users with lives to be lived who would, I suppose,
really like to disable their touchpads as well. Many, many gracious
platitudes indeed would be bestowed to the individual who disabled our
touchpads.


> Come to think of it, I believe the touchpad of my laptop can be turned on
> and off with a key combination involving the blue-lettered "Fn" key. You
> might already have what you're looking for.
>

It would be great to know what that is, because I did search for it once,
but never found it. I have a Dell Latitude E5570. Had it for about five
years now. I just checked all of my function keys. Alas.
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