Tech Singularity

I've recently got my shiny, new Dell XPS 13 (9350). After installing Ubuntu 16.04, everything worked without a hitch. Excellent. One thing that did bother me however was inadvertently hitting the touchpad while typing.

Here is a simple solution to enable/disable the touchpad on-demand via keyboard shortcuts:

1. Figure out the id of your touchpad:
   xinput list

2. On my laptop, the id is 12. Touchpad can be turned on/off as follows:
   xinput enable 12 xinput disable 12

3. To configure the keyboard shortcut, use:
   System Settings => Keyboard => Shortcuts

That's it. :-)