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V01D

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 128

touchpad disabled on KDE login

Hi,
this is driving me crazy: the touchpad is enabled in KDM, but during the KDE login the touchpad gets disabled. So I always have to open a konsole and do "xinput enable 12" (id of the touchpad).
Can't figure out why it started happening.

mzneverdies

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Registered: 2012-02-04

Posts: 147

Re: touchpad disabled on KDE login

Not a fix, but as workaround you could add "xinput enable 12" to the kde autostart on "System settings -> Start & Shutdown [system administration section] ->  add program"

pd: section names can vary, my kde isn't on english

Last edited by mzneverdies (2013-03-20 10:57:19)

<txt

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Registered: 2012-11-25

Posts: 4

Re: touchpad disabled on KDE login

Go to system settings->search:service->Service Manager
disactive the service "daemon to enable/disable touchpad"

yatinla

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Registered: 2014-05-28

Posts: 2

Re: touchpad disabled on KDE login

Wow, this is an old thread but I just suffered through hours trying to find a solution that worked for me and
this is the only one that did.  Same problem - touchpad worked until I logged in.  Then it stopped.  I could
enable it with "xinput enable 12" (with correct id of course) also, but that didn't persist.

yatinla

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Registered: 2014-05-28

Posts: 2

Re: touchpad disabled on KDE login

But now I see that my Fn key still doesn't work (on laptop) to enable/disable the touchpad.  Oh well, it used to.  I think what started the problem like for many others is having the touchpad off when closing the lid to sleep the laptop.