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heroin

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 6

touchpad cannot be disabled

hi everybody!

i have a very strange problem. touchpad cannot be disabled with keyboard shortcut (fn + f9).
the weird thing is that after typing shortcut (in gnome) the disabled touchpad icon is shown,
and touchpad is disabled in configuration. And when i click the disable touchpad in configuration dialog
the touchpad is disabled properly.

Any ideas?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: touchpad cannot be disabled

Can you clarify when this does and does not work?  Your title says it cannot be disabled, but unless I am misreading something, your post describes how everything works - at least in gnome.  Is it working in gnome, but not in some other DE/WM?  Most simpler WMs don't handle this for you, and you'd have to bind that function key yourself to a command to disable the touchpad.

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heroin

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 6

Re: touchpad cannot be disabled

Thank you for your interest.
Sorry for not being clear, i will try to explain.
Everything works correctly expect for the situation when:
Touchpad is enabled and i press the keyboard shortcut.
Here the touchpad stays enabled. But i can see the "touchpad disabled" notification, and in the settings dialog the touchpad is off.

Everything else works, i can enable/disable touchpad using the settings dialog,
I can enable the touchpad using the keyboard shortcut.

Another small bug i just notified: When i have no external mouse connected, i can't see touchpad on/off button in settings dialog.

I have only tested in gnome yet. i will try something else now.

btw i have installed xf86-input-synaptics to make touchpad work.
Computer model is ASUS N56JR, touchpad "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"

heroin

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 6

Re: touchpad cannot be disabled

If anyone is interested, i have found a workaround. I run this script at startup: http://pastebin.com/u7AG3sgW
The problem is that the keyboard shortcut sets TouchpadOff to 0 instead of 1 for some reason.