{"id":6353,"date":"2016-11-03T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2016-11-03T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:40:36","slug":"install-touchpad-indicator-in-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/install-touchpad-indicator-in-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Touchpad Indicator in Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/touchpad-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/touchpad-icon.png\" alt=\"touchpad\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for an app to easily control and configure your touchpad in Ubuntu Desktop? Touchpad Indicator, an open-source system tray applet, is well worth a try.<\/p>\n<p>Touchpad indicator is a great simple applet that indicates your touchpad status, which also offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keyboard shortcut to quickly disable\/enable touchpad.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to disable touchpad on typing.<\/li>\n<li>Basic touchpad configuration like:\n<ul>\n<li>vertical scrolling<\/li>\n<li>horizontal scrolling<\/li>\n<li>two fingers vertical or horizontal scrolling<\/li>\n<li>one finger, two fingers and three fingers tapping actions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-indicator.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-indicator-600x369.jpg\" alt=\"touchpad-indicator\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-indicator-600x369.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-indicator-450x276.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-indicator.jpg 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to install Touchpad Indicator in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The software can be easily installed from the developer&#8217;s PPA repository. Simply open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys, and run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao\/atareao<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-ppa-xenial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-ppa-xenial-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"touchpad-ppa-xenial\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-ppa-xenial-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-ppa-xenial-450x70.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/touchpad-ppa-xenial.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then update and install touchpad indicator via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install touchpad-indicator<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/atareao\/atareao\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/t\/touchpad-indicator\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> and click install via Ubuntu Software.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the software, simply run apt command with remove flag:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove touchpad-indicator && sudo apt autoremove<\/pre>\n<p>The PPA can be removed by going to System Settings -> Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an app to easily control and configure your touchpad in Ubuntu Desktop? Touchpad Indicator, an open-source system tray applet, is well worth a try. Touchpad indicator is a great simple applet that indicates your touchpad status, which also offers: Keyboard shortcut to quickly disable\/enable touchpad. Ability to disable touchpad on typing. Basic touchpad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1389,535],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-touchpad","tag-touchpad-indicator"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}