02-18-2020, 12:06 AM
I used to use xinput. I remember someone said synclient is better. But, I think it might be the other way around. Googling about the two, it sounds like xinput is preferred (something abut libinput not working with synclient.). If you ever try setting any synclient parms and they don't take (or, the synclient command disappears), that might be why.
I don't know why this isn't developed further (considering how difficult it seems to be to use a laptop with that confounded thing enabled). You'd think distros would detect a mouse, and disable the touchpad automatically. Or, have a default key combination to toggle it on/off when present. It's strange to me that that's not a standard among all desktops or distros.
I don't know why this isn't developed further (considering how difficult it seems to be to use a laptop with that confounded thing enabled). You'd think distros would detect a mouse, and disable the touchpad automatically. Or, have a default key combination to toggle it on/off when present. It's strange to me that that's not a standard among all desktops or distros.