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jkrsmkr

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Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 2

Touchpad is enabled after reboot/reset/suspend.

Hello.
Touchpad can be disabled/enabled by FN+F9. It doesn't do anything to synclient.
Fn key changes value of "touchpad-enabled" in "org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad".
After reboot/reset/suspend, "touchpad-enabled" is set to true and touchpad is enabled.
1.Why touchpad-enabled is automaticly set to true on reboot etc.?
2.Where can I search for what changes it?
2.How can i prevent overwriting "touchpad-enabled" value, so my touchpad settings will be stored corectly?

xinput:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse        	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad                	id=15	[slave  pointer  (2)]

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Touchpad is enabled after reboot/reset/suspend.

In Fedora Gnome, this was a persistent problem across multiple versions.  Seems like it is finally working for me though in Fedora 18.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528485
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713534
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650559

That said, I believe there is a way around this.  You may have a BIOS menu option to have the TouchPad disabled on boot up.  Alternatively, see the following...
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost. … ostcount=3

jkrsmkr

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Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 2

Re: Touchpad is enabled after reboot/reset/suspend.

There is some kind of bug in gnome-settings-daemon.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701176
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699098
Last version that works is 3.4.2-0ubuntu15, tested on Linux Mint 14.
On Arch I've tested from 3.8.3-1 down to 3.8.0-1 with no succes. Downgrading to previous packet(3.6.4-2) made system unable to boot, so I can't test them.

Workaround:
1.Open gnome-session-properties
2.Add:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled false

Touchpad is disabled on start, but enabling when need is less annoying, than disabling after every reboot.
Still, this is not a solution.

Vedexent

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Registered: 2013-06-27

Posts: 6

Re: Touchpad is enabled after reboot/reset/suspend.

If you're fine going through the synclient, the solution I use is the software toggle BASH script described on the ArchWiki's Touchpad Synaptics page.

I then added a

sh /bin/toggle-touchpad.sh &

line to my .xinitrc.

This has the advantage of working, regardless of the windowing environment being used (I'm using dwm, not Gnome).