On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net> wrote:
I'm running Fedora-22/KDE on my ThinkPad T510.
Ctrl-Y turns off the touchpad on this laptop.
But this only works until the next re-boot.
In System Settings=>Hardware=>Input Devices=>Touchpad
there is an option "Enable/Disable Touchpad"
which I assume is meant to toggle the touchpad on and off.
On my machine it seems to have no effect.
The options available are "Disable touchpad while typing" and in
connection with it "Disable taps and scrolling only". You can also set
the shortcut to enable/disable touchpad on the same tab. Apart from
that, I don't think there is a global "disable touchpad altogether"
option.
Have I misunderstood its purpose?
Or does one have to install some other package for it to work?
Fedora 22 uses the newer libinput touchpad driver, you can uninstall
it and install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics to configure as in Fedora 21.
As I recall, there was a straightforward option "Disable touchpad"
in Fedora-21/KDE, which worked perfectly.
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Timothy Murphy
Hope that helps.
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Rajeesh