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.