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The touchpad allows you to use your laptop without a mouse.

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To be able to run this command, we can use the gnome-terminal withe the bash shell.If the Acer/Toshiba/Lenovo/Dell/HP laptop touchpad is not working on Windows 10, check the 7 ways in this tutorial to try to fix touchpad not working issue. That means the command can be also as example: gnome-terminal - /bin/bash -c "file='/tmp/touch-disable' id='Synaptics TM3075-002' if then xinput enable $id rm $file else xinput disable $id touch $file fi" The state change is archived by the xinput enable/disable. By the second execution we will remove the file, so we know the next time we the device is enabled. To toggle the Touchpad enable/disable we create a file in /tmp as marker we have disabled the pointer device. Example: "Synaptics TM3075-002"ĥ - Name the Shortcut and set the define one ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=12 Ģ - Open Gnome-Settings/Devices/Keyboards Shortcutsģ - Add new Shortcut by using the '+'-buttonĤ - Copy descriped command and replace "YOUR_DEVICE_STRING". ⎜ ↳ Synaptics TM3075-002 id=13 <- this is my touchpad This command will toggle the the Pointer device.ġ - Open a Terminal and find the device: $xinput You can create a custom Shortcut with the following command: gnome-terminal - /bin/bash -c "file='/tmp/touch-disable' id=$(xinput | grep YOUR_DEVICE_STRING | grep -o 'id=\+' | grep -o '\+') if then xinput enable $id rm $file else xinput disable $id touch $file fi" If your property IDs are different then use yours. Assuming your property IDs match mine, disable these with the commands: % xinput set-prop 12 305 0Īnd now your trackpad should provide only mouse pointer position.

The relevant properties are "Two-Finger Scrolling", "Edge Scrolling", and "Tap Time", with property IDs 314, 313, and 305 respectively. List the touchpad properites with the command: % xinput -list-props 12 Mine looks like: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 You should see the trackpad with it's ID. First, get the device id from xinput: % xinput list I, also, just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, and found my trackpad behavior suboptimal with seemingly random scrolling and mouse clicks even though I had disabled the scrolling and mouse click in the System Settings GUI.īasically, I just wanted to be able to position the cursor with the trackpad and nothing else. I'm assuming you want to disable the trackpad because of its annoying scrolling and clicking behavior (yeah, I know what happens when you assume: you make an ASS out of U and ME, but it wouldn't be the first time).