Cannot disable touchpad under Fedora-22/KDE

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 15:48:17 UTC 2015


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 at 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.

poc


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