Introduction

I often make a mess touching the touchpad with my palms as I touch type. On the other hand, I tend to work without a USB mouse and sometimes need the touchpad. Furthermore, my current work laptop (Dell 5510) in spite of a hefty price tag doesn’t feature a hardware touchpad toggle.

Solution: provide a simple shell command to toggle the touchpad state:

tt

Installing

Install system-wide:

sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade touchpad

The package depends on xinput to do all the work:

sudo apt install xinput