Improve touchpad operation and move title bar buttons in Ubuntu 18.04

Si you have installed the new version of Ubuntu and you are a laptop user possibly you are one of those users who has a problem because you may have noticed that when you secondary click it does not respond so you may have thought it was a hardware problem when it was not.

Searching the web I realized that this error is not, but it is a characteristic which does not pay attention within the new features of Ubuntu.

If so, it is a characteristic because in this new version of Ubuntu the interaction with the buttons has been disabled of your touchpad basically the operation is done to click with the left and right button the right click is achieved with two fingers.

How to activate the touchpad in Ubuntu 18.04?

This small detail has a solution, it is not to be alarmed, yesimplement we must have the Gnome retouching tool.

If you don't have it, you can search for it in your Ubuntu software center as "Gnome Tweak" or if you prefer you can open a terminal and run:

sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

Done the installation pWe rocede to open the application and we must go to the section of "Keyboard and mouse" In the left sidebar and in the Mouse Click Emulation section, select Area.

Once this is done, you will have the button on your touchpad enabled again, there is no need to restart your system or close your user session.

How to disable the touchpad when connecting a mouse in Ubuntu 18.04?

Another very common problem that you can find when using a laptop is when you connect a mouse to your computer and while you are working with it and you have the need to use the keyboard at the same time it happens that your wrist of the hand, sleeve, or something on your arm touches the touchpad and this dulls the cursor.

Generally this happens when you are in a game of a game, doing some image editing among others.

For this We can activate a function that the touchpad is automatically disabled when it detects that a mouse has been connected to the system.

Only we must add a repository to our system to install the application to help us enable this feature.

To do this we must open a terminal and execute the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt update
sudo apt install touchpad-indicator

Once installed, run the touchpad application. You may notice that a new icon with which we can interact will be placed in the applications panel.

We are going to click on it and in "Preferences" a window will open, go to the Actions tab and activate the option »Deactivate touchpad when the mouse is connected«.

Now we go to the "General Options" tab and we will mark the "hidden start" box, this option makes the application load and we do not have to be activating or deactivating the function manually.

How to change the buttons of the title bar in Ubuntu 18.04?

If you are migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 or some flavor of it, pYou may have noticed almost immediately that the buttons in the title bar have been changed., if those buttons with which you interact the minimize, maximize and close windows.

Although this change is insignificant, there are many who end up getting used to a certain position of things, which is why this change can be a bit confusing or annoying in the interaction of your windows in the system.

To change the position of these to our liking, we will rely on the previously installed Gnome tweak tool.

Only in this case we will position ourselves on "Windows" and on "Buttons in the title bar" here we can see two options to place them on the right or left, here we simply choose the one we like.

We can also remove the minimize or maximize buttons in this option.

Without more that is all.