Hot Key to Disable Touchpad

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I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series laptop. The touchpad is very sensitive so I disable it for the most part using a USB mouse. However, sometimes I want to use the laptop without a mouse. So I am curious if there is a way to create a hotkey (or some other method) to toggle on and off the touchpad. Basically, I want to toggle on the touchpad when no mouse is available.

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Checkout and install touchpad-indicator. You can set it up to disable the touchpad when a usb mouse is plugged in and then enable it when there isn't one. It's been working great on my setup.

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Thanks, exactly what I needed.

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Which repo is this in?? Not in 18.04.3 I think... :disappointed:

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http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2018/04/install-touchpad-indicator-ubuntu-18-04-lts/

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OK, so it's in ppa:atareao/atareao :grinning: