keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

christianpoved4 · 2015-05-11 07:40:53

Hello everybody!

I just installed archlinux on my dell inspiron laptop, where the shorcut for enabling/disabling the touchpad is Fn+F3. However, when I try to do it it does not work. Moreover, the fonts of the windows change for a moment and if I press it several times in a short time Gnome crashes. This is a very odd problem which I have not found on google.com

Could you please give me a hand?

Thanks!

jasonwryan · 2015-05-11 07:55:48

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multimedia_keys

christianpoved4 · 2015-05-11 08:00:45

I don't understand, could you please be more specific with your answer?

jasonwryan · 2015-05-11 08:02:38

You follow the instructions on that page to determine what Fn+F3 is bound to. Then look in your journal or dmesg to see what it is actually doing.

christianpoved4 · 2015-05-11 08:09:49

Ok, according to showkey its the key 191, when I try to run xev I get nothing. On dmesg I got

[ 2173.602249] traps: gnome-settings-[3943] trap int3 ip:7f148560fac0 sp:7ffd777cfef0 error:0

jasonwryan · 2015-05-11 08:15:55

You could map it to a script that toggles the keypad; that is what I do.

christianpoved4 · 2015-05-11 08:21:15

I just tried to do it with synclient. However

christian@cerealbox:~$ synclient TouchpadOff=1
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
christian@cerealbox:~$ synclient TouchpadOff=0
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

jasonwryan · 2015-05-11 08:25:02

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad

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#1 2015-05-11 07:40:53

keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#2 2015-05-11 07:55:48

Re: keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#3 2015-05-11 08:00:45

Re: keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#4 2015-05-11 08:02:38

Re: keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#5 2015-05-11 08:09:49

Re: keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#6 2015-05-11 08:15:55

Re: keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#7 2015-05-11 08:21:15

Re: keybinding for disabling touchpad crashes gnome

#8 2015-05-11 08:25:02

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