I used to do it in All Settings/Mouse and Touchpad applet. It doesn't appear to be there any more.
How do I tell Fedora to not use the touchpad?
TC
On 29/07/16 11:15, thomas cameron wrote:
I used to do it in All Settings/Mouse and Touchpad applet. It doesn't appear to be there any more.
How do I tell Fedora to not use the touchpad?
I asked a similar question on this list, long ago, and was advised that from the command line you can do
synclient TouchpadOff=1
and that worked for me. (Use "=0" to switch it back on again.)
I created my own panel icon to effect these commands via point and click.
Note that I am using an antediluvian release of Fedora (and an equally old Mint desktop) so what I say above may be, uh, off the beam.
HTH, but.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 07/28/2016 06:40 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 29/07/16 11:15, thomas cameron wrote:
I used to do it in All Settings/Mouse and Touchpad applet. It doesn't appear to be there any more.
How do I tell Fedora to not use the touchpad?
I asked a similar question on this list, long ago, and was advised that from the command line you can do
synclient TouchpadOff=1
and that worked for me. (Use "=0" to switch it back on again.)
I created my own panel icon to effect these commands via point and click.
Note that I am using an antediluvian release of Fedora (and an equally old Mint desktop) so what I say above may be, uh, off the beam.
Thanks very much!
TC
On 07/29/16 07:40, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 29/07/16 11:15, thomas cameron wrote:
I used to do it in All Settings/Mouse and Touchpad applet. It doesn't appear to be there any more.
How do I tell Fedora to not use the touchpad?
I asked a similar question on this list, long ago, and was advised that from the command line you can do
synclient TouchpadOff=1
and that worked for me. (Use "=0" to switch it back on again.)
I created my own panel icon to effect these commands via point and click.
Note that I am using an antediluvian release of Fedora (and an equally old Mint desktop) so what I say above may be, uh, off the beam.
HTH, but.
FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise.
On 07/28/2016 06:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise.
Thanks, Ed!
Mine is a Synaptics, and it works great with "synclient TouchpadOff=1" so I think I'm good!
TC
On 07/29/2016 10:34 AM, thomas cameron wrote:
On 07/28/2016 06:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise.
Thanks, Ed!
Mine is a Synaptics, and it works great with "synclient TouchpadOff=1" so I think I'm good!
TC
There used to be a program called synaptik--notice the spelling--that would turn the scratchpad off. See if you can find it anywhere. --doug
On 07/29/2016 11:11 AM, Doug wrote:
On 07/29/2016 10:34 AM, thomas cameron wrote:
On 07/28/2016 06:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise.
Thanks, Ed!
Mine is a Synaptics, and it works great with "synclient TouchpadOff=1" so I think I'm good!
TC
There used to be a program called synaptik--notice the spelling--that would turn the scratchpad off. See if you can find it anywhere.
Here's a script I "appropriated" that works on my Dell laptop:
------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash # toggleTouchpad by Brendon Dugan # Toggles a touchpad on or off depending on it's current state or CLI # argument # # To configure, run the command 'xinput list' in terminal and identify # your touch pad. # # Using the output of the above command, change the touchpadString # variable to a substring of your touchpad's description that is unique # to that device. # # To run, simply type 'toggleTouchpad' to toggle your touchpad on or # off, or 'toggleTouchpad on' to explicitly turn your touchpad on, or # 'toggleTouchpad off' to explicitly turn it off. # # Enjoy! # # Note from Rick Stevens: "My laptop uses an AlpsPS/2 touchpad, not a # Synaptics one, so that's why the string below is what it is." touchpadString="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" touchpadID=$(xinput list | grep "$touchpadString" | awk -F " " '{print $7}' | awk -F "=" '{print $2}') touchpadEnabled=$(xinput list-props $touchpadID | grep "Device Enabled" | awk -F ":" '{print $2}') # Check for arguments on the command line if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then # Any arguments? arg1=$(echo $1 | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]) # Yes, convert to lower case cliArg=1 # Set flag that we have one else # There is no argument. cliArg=0 # Clear flag fi
if [ $cliArg -eq 1 ]; then # Did we get an argument? if [ $arg1 = 'on' ]; then # Yes, was it "on"? xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 1 # Yes, enable the touchpad elif [ $arg1 = 'off' ]; then # No, was it "off"? xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 0 # Yes, disable the touchpad else # None of the above, so... sleep 1 # ...sleep one second, exit fi
else # No argument, toggle state if [ $touchpadEnabled -eq 1 ]; then # Enabled now? xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 0 # Yes, so disable it else # Must be disabled, so... xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 1 # ...enable it fi fi
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This is saved as "/usr/local/bin/toggleTouchpad", mode 755 and owned by root:root (/usr/local/bin is part of all of my users' PATHs). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On 07/29/2016 08:34 AM, thomas cameron wrote:
On 07/28/2016 06:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise.
Mine is a Synaptics, and it works great with "synclient TouchpadOff=1" so I think I'm good!
That works for now, but likely will stop working in the future or with a clean install. The Synaptics driver is deprecated, libinput is the new way and synclient won't work with it.
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