I unchecked enable mouse clicking by touch-pad on the control panel that you
wrote.
That's enough for me, because this way I don't accidentally click with the
mouse, when I type.
I don't fully turned off touch-pad.
But I asked for advice on how to automatically disable (fully turn off) the
t
https://askubuntu.com/questions/787433/how-do-i-disable-touchpad-when-using-a-mouse
Accoriding to the above mentioned guide, in Trisquel Flidas terminal I typed
this, with no effect. But in Ubuntu Focal, it has effect.
adam@tristquel:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad
send
I think the OP is asking for an automatic method to unplug the touchpad when
an external pointing device is plugged and vice-versa.
On my flidas OS Desktop, under System/Preferences/Hardware, there's a
selection called "Mouse"
where there's a menu with "General" at the top (highlighted) and "Touchpad."
You'll want to make
sure that the Touchpad is _not_ "enabled."
George Langford
There is such feature in KDE (distribution independent) though not enabled by
default. I believe that it should work with any other desktop environments.
Though I usually manually enable or disable input devices (keyboard, mouse,
touch pad, touch screen, digitizer pen, other gaming console co
The same methods for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) should also work here.
While looking on the internet I see that someone made a custom udev rule for
example.
I don't know, how to automatically turn off the built-in touch-pad of my
laptop running Trisquel, when an external mouse is plugged in to one of the
USB-sockets of the same laptop running Trisquel?
I can do that in Ubuntu and Windows 10, but not in Trisquel.
