touchpad-indicator does not work in dell Inspiron 15 3000 series

[Abdul Halim]

i launch touchpad-indicator
and clicked the icon
and my touchpad not disable

[Sergey (sergej-lisitsyn)]

Doesn't work short keys for launch touchpad-indicator. In ubuntu setting (in my case Xubuntu) may watch two touchpad devices: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad and DELL078B:00 XXXX:XXXX. touchpad-indicator works only for SynPS/2, but DELLXXXX:XX device doesn't see.

[Nyerges Ádám (nyergesadam)]

Same case with a DELL Inspiron 11 3168. Touchpad indicator watches the SynPS/2 but the DELL DELL074D:00 06CB:7D47 is the touchpad. If I disable it manually, it works.

[Florian H (yucosuma)]

Same case with DELL Inspiron 15 5000 Series. Touchpad is recognised as 'DELL0767:00 06CB:7E92 Touchpad'

Enabling/Disabling using the script described under
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Touchpad/#Abschalten-des-Touchpads-ohne-Synaptics-Treiber
replacing 'Synaptics Touch Pad V 103u5' by 'DELL0767:00 06CB:7E92 Touchpad' works perfectly. Created a keyboard shortkey for it.

[Florian H (yucosuma)]

Found a workaround that works for me:

1. Determine the device name with 'xinput --list'. The output for me was:
 Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DELL0767:00 06CB:7E92 Touchpad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated Webcam id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ DELL Wireless hotkeys id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]

The correct touchpad is id 13. Try now to disable/enable it manually using
 xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0
and
 xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 1
where 13 should be your appropriate id-number. Check whether your touchpad properly disables/enables.

2. Correct the touchpad search function touchpad.py (located for me under /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator). Replace the line
TOUCHPADS = 'touchpad','glidepoint','fingersensingpad','bcm5974','dll0665','dll05e3','cyps/2','alpsps/2']
by
TOUCHPADS = ['dell0767:00 06cb:7e92 touchpad']
with your appropriate full device name checked in step one but written in all lower case characters.

3. Restart touchpad-indicator and now it should work.