By Romano Giannetti romano@rgtti.com , romano.giannetti@gmail.com
Most laptops have a key combination (usually some Fn-thing) to enable/disable the touchpad. But not all of them. My Lenovo Yoga L13, for example, doesn't have one. This extension just enables/disables the touchpad; by default, it restores the touchpad in the enabled state when you logout and login, but you can choose just to remember the old state in the options.
Click (or tap with a touchscreen, thanks to Lasse Yledahl) on the icon to change from Touchpad On to Off.
Each click toggle the status.
- You can choose to have a notification for each change of status or not. (default yes)
- You can choose if the touchpad starts enabled after login (default yes) or if it remembers the last value.
- You can opt for more colorful icons if you do not like the standard ones (contributed by @corebots).
If you are stuck without mouse or touchpad, open a terminal window or the command prompt of gnome-shell (with Alt-F2) and issue
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/send-events true
...and you'll have your touchpad back.