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dragonn

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Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

I don't know when it started but i can not disable touchpad using the Fn + F9 or the button above touchpad. It worked sometimes ago but after some update it doesn't work any more .

jasonwryan

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Re: Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … board_keys

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dragonn

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Registered: 2012-05-04

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Re: Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

evtest /dev/input/event0

Doesn't shows nothing when i press the touchpad button or Fn + F9, other keys works fine.  showkeys doesn't show this key too.

JohnBobSmith

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Re: Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

Greetings,

On my laptop, Fn + F9 is the lower volume key. I am running an HP Pavillion G6, so that may not be relevant. However, is it possible the key got re-bound to something else? For my laptop, I also needed to change a fairly easy to find BIOS setting to get function keys working the way I wanted.

On a different note, I use bash aliases to enable/disable touchpad. This method (xinput) also prevents button presses by accident with the palm of my hand:

[jbs@dmb-gaming-laptop ~]$ cat .bashrc | grep touchpad
alias touchpadoff='xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0'
alias touchpadon='xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 1'
[jbs@dmb-gaming-laptop ~]$ 

I don't need to use my touchpad often, so the alias doesnt inconvience me. But if shortcuts are a must, I don't think it would be too hard to bind the xinput command(s) to some key combo. Maybe alt+m? This wiki page might also be of use regarding xinput. Hopefully This helps!

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dragonn

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Re: Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

Well this an workaround not a fix. The hardware button were better because the settings did stick after reboot.

atabeymahmudov

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Re: Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

 $xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ MosArt Optical Mouse                    	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP Truevision HD                        	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=12	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP WMI hotkeys                          	id=14	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP Wireless hotkeys                     	id=15	[slave  keyboard (3)]

$xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0

Last edited by atabeymahmudov (2016-02-26 08:38:04)

Trilby

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Re: Toshiba A660-16M - touchpad disable/enable button not working

Atabeymahmudov, what is that supposed to mean, did you even read the thread?  So far in three posts on these forums, two things seem clear: you want to help, but you don't bother actually reading the threads you are posting to.  Please change the second half of that.

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