I just updated to Fedora-21 from Fedora-20/KDE, and as far as I can see it is no longer possible to turn off the touchpad on my ThinkPad T510 in System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices as it used to be?
On Thursday, December 11, 2014 02:17:16 PM Timothy Murphy wrote:
I can see it is no longer possible to turn off the touchpad on my ThinkPad T510 in System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices as it used to be?
There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what you are looking for? See the image[1].
[1] http://i.imgur.com/fuykmXo.png
Sudhir Khanger wrote:
There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what you are looking for? See the image[1].
These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants to disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in the new kcm_touchpad. :-(
Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sudhir Khanger wrote:
There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what you are looking for? See the image[1].
These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants to disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in the new kcm_touchpad. :-(
Kevin Kofler
Quite, thank you. The System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad page you show says "Turn off touchpad while typing". I want to use the pointer on my ThinkPad rather than the touchpad, as I imagine do many people with pointing sticks on their keyboard.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:45:58 +0000 Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sudhir Khanger wrote:
There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what you are looking for? See the image[1].
These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants to disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in the new kcm_touchpad. :-(
Kevin KoflerQuite, thank you. The System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad page you show says "Turn off touchpad while typing". I want to use the pointer on my ThinkPad rather than the touchpad, as I imagine do many people with pointing sticks on their keyboard.
Some laptops have special key combination to turn touchpad on/off. For example on my T400 it works with Fn+F8, and it shows notification that it is on/off. This can be a solution when available.
Am 12.12.2014 um 15:12 schrieb bitlord:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:45:58 +0000 Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sudhir Khanger wrote:
There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what you are looking for? See the image[1].
These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants to disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in the new kcm_touchpad. :-(
Quite, thank you. The System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad page you show says "Turn off touchpad while typing". I want to use the pointer on my ThinkPad rather than the touchpad, as I imagine do many people with pointing sticks on their keyboard.
Some laptops have special key combination to turn touchpad on/off. For example on my T400 it works with Fn+F8, and it shows notification that it is on/off. This can be a solution when available
well, in the good old days there where a hardware switch as well as for wireless woking without the OS needs anything to know about
the same way as my HP workstations have a built-in speaker hidden with the front panel and a headset connector automatically turning off the internal speaker, the OS just sees a sound output and that's it
shiny new world with all the burden to the OS :-)
On Friday, December 12, 2014 03:12:10 PM bitlord wrote:
Some laptops have special key combination to turn touchpad on/off.
IMHO KDE doesn't respond well to special-key combinations. A few works out of box on my system but not all.
bitlord wrote:
Some laptops have special key combination to turn touchpad on/off. For example on my T400 it works with Fn+F8, and it shows notification that it is on/off. This can be a solution when available.
Thanks very much, that also works on my Thinkpad-T510. But how did you find it? I've never seen it mentioned.
I registered a bug with KDE bugzilla before reading your solution. But even after learning about it, I think that a System Setting page with the title Enable/Disable Touchpad might reasonably be expected to do that.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:45:58AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sudhir Khanger wrote:
There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what you are looking for? See the image[1].
These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants to disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in the new kcm_touchpad. :-(
Kevin KoflerQuite, thank you. The System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad page you show says "Turn off touchpad while typing". I want to use the pointer on my ThinkPad rather than the touchpad, as I imagine do many people with pointing sticks on their keyboard.
on my netbook I have it implemented as a hotkey using xinput, you could also add it to your startup tasks. Unfortunately don't have the code handy here but should be easy to google together.
Richard
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Timothy Murphy wrote:
I just updated to Fedora-21 from Fedora-20/KDE, and as far as I can see it is no longer possible to turn off the touchpad on my ThinkPad T510 in System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices as it used to be?
The new kcm_touchpad also has systemtray applet. You can click on that to manually enable/disable touchpad.
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