How to auto-disable touchpad in Ubuntu?

Question

linux

Good afternoon,
The problem is the following: there is a convertible laptop (Dell Inspiron 11). After installing Ubuntu on it, the system can automatically disable the hard keyboard if the laptop is folded into a tablet, but the touchpad continues to work in this position. It is logical to assume that since the keyboard is turned off automatically in this position, then the touchpad should be able to do this. Has anyone come across this problem and has an idea how to solve it? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As a result, I spat on the automatic disabling of the touchpad and other auto things and stupidly wrote a widget that does all this. For those who are interested, the script for one and a half lines of code can be found here

Answer 2

What is already built-in and perhaps next to it there is a setting for transformers
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

Disabling Touchpad while Typing
Go to System > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad and uncheck 'Disable touchpad while typing' and 'Enable mouse clicks with touchpad'. (This method is not available under Ubuntu 14.04.)

In the same article, there is an option to enable and disable the touchpad from the console, which means the ability to hang a script on the transition event to
tablet
mode ..
sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

Answer 3

For example:
1. enable the debug log for udev
2. transform the device
3. look in the logs for what events it generates
4. attach a script to these events that bugs xinput.