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.
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
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.
Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net 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?
Germano Massullo wrote:
Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net 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.
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@eircom.net 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.
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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@eircom.net wrote:
Germano Massullo wrote:
Il 23/lug/2015 01:53 PM, "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net 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.
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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.
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