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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1037085
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 1037085

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Aapo Rantalainen (aapo-rantalainen) wrote :

I found another way to disable/enable touchpad from commandline:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled false
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled true
This is working. But after touchpad breaks with hardware-button this will not bring it back.

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After playing with gnome-settings-daemon (gsd):

gsd-media-keys-manager is handling three different touchpadkey-events:
        { TOUCHPAD_KEY, NULL, "XF86TouchpadToggle" },
        { TOUCHPAD_ON_KEY, NULL, "XF86TouchpadOn" },
        { TOUCHPAD_OFF_KEY, NULL, "XF86TouchpadOff" },
Where first (TOUCHPAD_KEY) is only which is really doing something about settings, two latters are only about showing info on screen. And this laptop is only sending these ON/OFF events.

I then commented out everything relating touchpad -> Bug still triggers: Hardware-button disables touchpad, but doesn't enable it back (this time there are no visual icon on screen).
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What another process/application is handling media keys? (acpi_listen is not showing it)