Here is simple script to toggle touchpad on laptop on or off<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First you have to discover which device id is actually touchpad – you can do that using Here is simple script to toggle touchpad on laptop on or off First you have to discover which device id is actually touchpad – you can do that using xinput list. There touchpad will be shown as one more mouse. Then you can update script below with touchpad’s ID on your system (replace <ID> with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,128,102],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mouse","tag-touchpad","tag-xorg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}xinput list<\/code>. There touchpad will be shown as one more mouse. Then you can update script below with touchpad’s ID on your system (replace <ID><\/code> with actual number). You can bind this little script to some key to be able to easily toggle touchpad on or off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n#!\/bin\/sh
TOUCHPAD=<ID>
enabled=`xinput list-props $TOUCHPAD | grep Device\\ Enabled | tail -c 2`
#echo \"Enabled: $enabled\"
if [ \"$enabled\" = \"1\" ]
then
xinput disable $TOUCHPAD
else
xinput enable $TOUCHPAD
fi<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"