Install Touchpad Indicator in Ubuntu 14.04

Touchpad indicator is an applet icon on Unity panel that allows you to enable/disable touchpad via its drop-down menu or a shortcut key.

Besides that basic function, the simple app supports:

• Disable touchpad when mouse plugged.
• Disable touchpad on typing.
• Natural scrolling.
• Circular scrolling.
• Two fingers vertical/horizontal scrolling.

Install:

Touchpad indicator is developed by atareao team, available in the PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04.

To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

This will add the developer’s PPA and install the indicator applet from that repository.

(Optional) Uninstall:

If for some reason you want to remove the indicator as well as the PPA repository, do:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:atareao/atareao 

sudo apt-get remove touchpad-indicator

sudo apt-get update