On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark, > > synclient touchpadoff=1 ## turns off the touchpad > synclient touchpadoff=0 ## turns on the touchpad > > You can make aliases for these commands or bind them to some hotkey > combination. > Thanks! I wasn't aware of that command. That seems easier than grepping xinput for the ID. But, I want one key binding to toggle the touchpad on/off. So, I have a script which not only finds the device-ID, but also the current state (which I save as an environment variable). If I used synclient it would be simpler because I wouldn't have to find the device-ID (like I do with xinput). But, I'd still need a script to toggle the value. I still think this would be useful as a keyboard shortcut. It was really frustrating to me when I switched to Lubuntu over a year ago (from Win 8.1) and struggled with the cursor jumping around while I type. I don't know if it's just me who prefers a real mouse. Ideally, I wish there would be a trivial application in menu->settings to turn of off/on (so it could be easily found by a new user), and also state in on that application's screen that the same functionality can be accessed through a shortcut. I know there's more ideas than people doing the work. But, I do think this (and a keyboard-shortcut diagram of some kind) would help new users from Windows. It's really frustrating finding these things organically.
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