How to enable "Disable touchpad when mouse is connected" in xfce4

As the title explains says, i want to enable that option in my xfce4 session. In the Mouse and Touchpad, the option isn’t there. I have cinnamon and plasma installed and both have it installed in their menus, do it need to edit any specific configuration file? Any help is appreciated

inxi -Fazy:

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Hi @MaG_NITud3 ,
You can disable the touchpad under settings, then Mouse and Touchpad , see the tab Behaviour and select from the display list the touchpad and press the button on the upper right to disable the effect. I wonder whether you can try and found the correct setting.

Hope this help, regards.

But that isnt what i want, what i want is that the touchpad remain disabled when my mouse is connected and automatically reanables when i disconnect the mouse. This option is present in Plasma, Gnome, Cinnamon, etc. But i cant seem to find it in xfce4.

With this search term thrown at Google:

disable touchpad while mouse plugged in xfce4

the first and subsequent hits all point to an app that is available in the AUR:

AUR (en) - touchpad-indicator-git

Thanks for the help, when i googled it, articles for ubuntu based distros popped up so i didnt look into it further

… anytime!

Lesson learned:
the problems and their solutions are very similar if not the same
across Linux distributions

Just the way to implement the solutions is different between Debian/Ubuntu (for instance) and Arch (Manjaro)
because of slight differences in the naming of tools and system configuration files.

It’s still helpful to have a solution to a problem even though it is not the exact Linux distribution it is described for.

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