A simple script to toggle on/off laptop touchpad on Gnome Desktop

toggle-touchpad-on-gnome.sh

#!/bin/bash
# the code is written by steeve.mccauley from: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/935/toggle-touchpad/
# I tested on Gnome 3.38.2 on 2020-12-17. It works perfectly.
# Then added a keyboard shortcut to easy run the script to turn on or off the laptop touchpad.
class=org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad #location in gconf settings where the touchpad is en/disabled
name=send-events #name of the actual setting
status=$(gsettings get "$class" "$name")
status=${status,,} # normalize to lower case; this is a modern bash extension

echo Current status is $status
if [[ $status = "'disabled'" ]]; then # needs " ' '" to work
echo it is off
new_status=enabled # ' not required
else
new_status=disabled
fi
echo "Toggling to $new_status"
gsettings set "$class" "$name" "$new_status"