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#1 2011-08-23 09:44:46

matusso
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Registered: 2011-08-23
Posts: 4

Gnome 3::Touchpad problem

Hi,

I have a problem with gnome3. I have a new laptop Lenovo Thinkpad L420 (Intel Core
i5-2410M + Intel HD 3000) with OS Archlinux 64-bit + Gnome3.

When I disable touchpad, touchpad is off and I enable touchpad, touchpad is
still disable::touchpad toggle (Fn+F8). When I switch to some tty (Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6) and
back to Xserver (Ctrl + Alt + F7), so touchpad works.

And touchpad in gnome 2 works normally.

What can I do with this problem? Sorry for my bad english. Thanks for your help!

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#2 2011-08-23 11:57:22

Shark
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From: /dev/zero
Registered: 2011-02-28
Posts: 684

Re: Gnome 3::Touchpad problem

You should post some logs. Give us an output of "dmesg | tail" when this happen.

I have done bellow to get a working switch for my touchpad in X environment. This is a WORKAROUND not a solution to your problem. First of all type:

xinput list

You will see your touchpad. My touchpad is:

ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad 

I will use my touchpad as an example.


Now copy this text to blank file and make it executable:

#!/bin/bash


if
xinput --list-props "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" | grep "Synaptics Off" | grep 1
then
xinput --set-prop 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' 'Synaptics Off' 0
else
xinput --set-prop 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' 'Synaptics Off' 1
fi

Again, my touchpad is examplary you have too put yours in.

Now you can use this script through gnome keyboard shortcut application and assign key combination.

Last edited by Shark (2011-08-23 13:35:06)


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