have Cinnamon developer give option to disable mouse pad when usb mouse is inserted

[webstuff]

Can someone contact the developer of Cinnamon give option to disable mouse pad when usb mouse is inserted and then re-enable the mouse pad once the usb mouse is disconnected? the mouse pad doesn't get automatically disabled once i reinsert the usb transceiver. sigh. again, windows kick ass in this area. this feature had been missing in linux for over 10 years. same dangit issue. right now, there's a disable mouse pad and previously i accidentally disabled the mousepad and usb mouse without ability to click it back as I would on windows by using alt tab.

[kc1di]

Hello webstuff,

I Don't believe that is an option in Cinnamon yet at least I have never found it. There is an apt that may work called touchpad indicator which can be added from this PPA. https://launchpad.net/~atareao/+archive/ubuntu/atareao it has a setting under preferences that will automatically disable the touchpad when mouse is plugged in.

That allows you to disable the touchpad when you want. My laptop has a function key that will disable the touchpad and works quite well.
Hope that's of help. KDE is the only DE I know that has a setting that automatically disables touchpad when external mouse is plugged in. Unfortunately Mint has dropped support of that Desktop since 19. Good luck.