Ubuntu 18.04 disable/enable touchpad via command

In Ubuntu, you often encounter the situation where you cannot turn off the touchpad with shortcut keys. This problem occurred after the blogger installed Ubuntu 18.04 on his computer.

Solution:

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In Ubuntu, you often encounter the situation where you cannot turn off the touchpad with shortcut keys. This problem occurred after the blogger installed Ubuntu 18.04 on his computer.

Solution:

First check the id of the input device. Enter the command line: xinput. As shown in the figure, the id of the blogger's TouchPad is 17. The ids of different computers are different.

After knowing id=17, you can turn off/on the touchpad through commands.

Disable command: xinput --disable 17

Enable command: xinput --enable 17

It is too troublesome to enter it like this every time, so let's simplify it and write two shell files, one to turn off the TouchPad, named off17, and the other to turn on the TouchPad, named on17.

Then add the modification permissions to these two files and move them to the /usr/bin/ directory.

Command line input: chmod a+x off17

sudo mv off17 /usr/bin/

In this way, you can enter off17 in the command line to turn off the touchpad.

same,

Command line input: chmod a+x on17

sudo mv on17 /usr/bin/

You can turn on the touchpad by entering on17.

Enter the device ID, enter the command line: xinput , as shown in the figure, the blogger's TouchPad ID = 17, different computers have different IDs,

After knowing id=17, you can turn off/on the touchpad through commands.

Disable command: xinput --disable 17

Enable command: xinput --enable 17

It is too troublesome to enter it like this every time, so let's simplify it and write two shell files, one to turn off the TouchPad, named off17, and the other to turn on the TouchPad, named on17.

Then add the modification permissions to these two files and move them to the /usr/bin/ directory.

Command line input: chmod a+x off17

sudo mv off17 /usr/bin/

In this way, you can enter off17 in the command line to turn off the touchpad.

same,

Command line input: chmod a+x on17

sudo mv on17 /usr/bin/

You can turn on the touchpad by entering on17.

Summarize

The above is what I introduced to you about disabling/enabling the touchpad in Ubuntu 18.04 through commands. I hope it will be helpful to you. If you have any questions, please leave me a message and I will reply to you in time. I would also like to thank everyone for their support of the 123WORDPRESS.COM website!
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