Hi
I had a similar problem a couple of years ago. In case you don't find anything,
you could use this shell script, that I'm using:
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scriptfilePath="$(readlink -f $0)"
workingDir=$(dirname "${scriptfilePath}")
toggleFile=$workingDir"/toggleIndicator"
if [ ! -f $toggleFile ]; then
xinput --enable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
echo "1" > $toggleFile
else
xinput --disable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
rm $toggleFile
fi
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Take a look at the two `xinput` commands. You need to find out, how your stick
and touchpad are called (use `xinput --list`) and replace the names with the
names on your computer.
I put the script as ~/.config/touchpad/touchpadToggle.sh and mark it as executable
(right click-> properties -> permission -> checkbox on bottom)
I then set a command in `Keyboard` (Mouse Menu -> Keyboard -> "Application
Shortcuts"):
/bin/sh /home/[YOUR_USERNAME]/.config/touchpad/touchpadToggle.sh
I'm using Shift+Ctrl+Space as Shortcut.
Regards
Chris
On 2021/09/06 18:46, Michael Lueck wrote:
Greetings,
I have been remote for the past couple of weeks... traveling, so away from my
desktop computer. For this trip I freshly loaded a ThinkPad with Xubuntu
20.04.2 release.
I prefer to attach an external Logitech mouse to the computer.
Is it possible to intelligently auto disable the built-in pointing stick / pad
when the OS detects an external pointing device attached? And for them to
re-enable if the external pointing device were to become disconnected?
Countless times the built-in pointing devices were picking up unintentional
input and trashing my text I was trying to type. Very annoying!
I am thankful,
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