Cannot disable touchpad under Fedora-22/KDE

[Timothy Murphy]

I want to disable the touchpad on my Thinkpad-T510 running Fedora-22/KDE .
If I go to System Settings=>Hardware=>Input Devices=>Touchpad
and click on Enable/Disable Touchpad (and click Apply)
it seems to have no effect.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[Germano Massullo]

Is it an upgraded installation of Fedora or a fresh F22 installation? I had
a similar problem some months ago and I had to go through KDE config files
in the home folder.
I don't remember correctly which file I had to reset

[Timothy Murphy]

Germano Massullo wrote:

>  Is it an upgraded installation of Fedora or a fresh F22 installation?
> I
>  had a similar problem some months ago and I had to go through KDE config
>  files in the home folder.
>  I don't remember correctly which file I had to reset 
Thanks for your response.
It was a fresh Fedora-22 installation,
through a Fedora-22 KDE Live USB stick.
But I kept the old /home partition.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[Germano Massullo]

Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; ha
scritto:
>  It was a fresh Fedora-22 installation,
>  through a Fedora-22 KDE Live USB stick.
>  But I kept the old /home partition. 
So are you using the old KDE settings contained
in your old home folder?
> From which Fedora version is it?

[Timothy Murphy]

Germano Massullo wrote:

>  Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy"
>  <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; ha scritto:
> > It was a fresh Fedora-22 installation,
> > through a Fedora-22 KDE Live USB stick.
> > But I kept the old /home partition.
>  So are you using the old KDE settings contained in your old home folder?
>  From which Fedora version is it? 
Fedora-21.
But surely Fedora does not assume that anyone installing a new version
will delete their old /home partition?
I would have thought that it was up to KDE to modify any settings
in the /home partition, if that is in fact necessary.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 17:28 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  Germano Massullo wrote:
>  
>  > Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy"
>  > <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; ha scritto:
>  > > It was a fresh Fedora-22 installation,
>  > > through a Fedora-22 KDE Live USB stick.
>  > > But I kept the old /home partition.
>  > So are you using the old KDE settings contained in your old home 
>  > folder?
>  > From which Fedora version is it?
>  
>  Fedora-21.
>  But surely Fedora does not assume that anyone installing a new 
>  version
>  will delete their old /home partition?
>  I would have thought that it was up to KDE to modify any settings
>  in the /home partition, if that is in fact necessary. 
You might think that, but you'd be wrong. Old config files are not
necessarily updated or even read correctly. I remember complaining
about this many years ago, to be told that it was unreasonable to
expect anything different.

poc

[Eric Griffith]

Truly clean installs include a wipe of home. Old config files can be
notorious for being misread or causing problems. Back when I worried about
keeping Home in between upgrades I just made a script that went into ~ and
deleted every file or folder that started with a ".", a reboot later and
they'd just get recreated. Kept all my files but all my settings would get
wiped.
On Jul 23, 2015 11:28, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; wrote:

>  Germano Massullo wrote:
>
>  > Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy"
>  > <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; ha scritto:
>  >> It was a fresh Fedora-22 installation,
>  >> through a Fedora-22 KDE Live USB stick.
>  >> But I kept the old /home partition.
>  > So are you using the old KDE settings contained in your old home folder?
>  > From which Fedora version is it?
>
>  Fedora-21.
>  But surely Fedora does not assume that anyone installing a new version
>  will delete their old /home partition?
>  I would have thought that it was up to KDE to modify any settings
>  in the /home partition, if that is in fact necessary.
>
>  --
>  Timothy Murphy
>  gayleard /at/ eircom.net
>  School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
>
>
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[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>  I want to disable the touchpad on my Thinkpad-T510 running
> Fedora-22/KDE .
>  If I go to System Settings=>Hardware=>Input Devices=>Touchpad
>  and click on Enable/Disable Touchpad (and click Apply)
>  it seems to have no effect. 
I found in the end that this was a misunderstanding on my part.
I thought one just had to click on the Enable/Disable button,
but now I see that this opens a small window with a new menu,
which allows one to set a key-combination for disabling the touchpad.
After setting Ctrl-Y to disable the touchpad my problem is solved.

I don't understand how anyone can think this is a simpler way
of disabling the touchpad, but then simplicity does not appear to be
a high priority for the Plasma developers.


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin