{"id":7652,"date":"2018-04-13T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:05:56","slug":"install-touchpad-indicator-ubuntu-18-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/install-touchpad-indicator-ubuntu-18-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Touchpad Indicator in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/touchpad-icon.png\" alt=\"touchpad\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5958\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Touchpad Indicator is system tray applet to configure laptop touchpad settings and actions in Ubuntu desktop.<\/p>\n<p>With Touchpad Indicator, you can easily:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Disable \/ Enable touchpad<\/b> with indicator menu or keyboard shortcut.<\/li>\n<li><b>Disable touchpad when mouse is plugged<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Disable touchpad while typing.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Also do basic settings for natural scrolling, tapping, touchpad speed, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/touchpad-indicator-bionic-600x308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/touchpad-indicator-bionic-600x308.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/touchpad-indicator-bionic-450x231.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/touchpad-indicator-bionic-768x394.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/touchpad-indicator-bionic.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Touchpad Indicator in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The software is available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~atareao\/+archive\/ubuntu\/atareao\" target=\"_blank\">developer&#8217;s PPA<\/a> for all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> or by searching for &#8220;terminal&#8221; from application launcher. When it opens, do followings steps to install the indicator:<\/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 (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutter-ppa-600x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"77\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutter-ppa-600x77.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutter-ppa-450x57.png 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/shutter-ppa.png 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then check updates and install the software by running following commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, launch it and you&#8217;ll see the applet icon in top-right system tray.<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove touchpad indicator, run <code>apt<\/code> command in terminal with <code>remove<\/code> flag:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove touchpad-indicator<\/pre>\n<p>To remove PPA repositories, launch <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and navigate to <b>Other Software<\/b> tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touchpad Indicator is system tray applet to configure laptop touchpad settings and actions in Ubuntu desktop. With Touchpad Indicator, you can easily: Disable \/ Enable touchpad with indicator menu or keyboard shortcut. Disable touchpad when mouse is plugged. Disable touchpad while typing. Also do basic settings for natural scrolling, tapping, touchpad speed, etc. How to [&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":[839,535,1527],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-disable-touchpad-while-typing","tag-touchpad-indicator","tag-ubuntu-18-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","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=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}