Disabling touchpad when mouse is connected Xubuntu 24

[etcetera]

I see there is a gazillion threads about this on the main Ubuntu forum and elsewhere so it must be an issue. I tried a couple of solutions, all to no avail.

My touchpad is hypersensitive on 7750 I got although it runs Xubuntu 24 pretty nice. So does 7720.

Is there a definitive fix for this issue?

 

[kc1di]

I guess I'd want to know what you have tried already?

XFCE does not come with that native ability. You can either turn the touchpad on or off via the XFCE settings.
I've used touchpad indicator in the past but not sure it's still available in Ubuntu 24 repositories, But install synaptic and do a search for it. see if it works for you.

 

[etcetera]

I am using synaptic driver to handle the touchpad. Strangely when I boot the machine, the touchpad does not work at all until I plug in the mouse.
I need to check if that is still occurring.
I tried so much need to go back and review all that I did. There was that script I found floating around which probes every 5 seconds or so if a mouse is plugged in. I didn't install it. There has to be a better way.