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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #868400
  2. Comment #43

Comment 43 for bug 868400

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Karl (karl1982) wrote : Re: Synaptics touchpad stops working

Thucydides411's video looks about like what I'm experiencing.

I'm starting to think we may be looking at more than one bug in the same place. Tell me this, has anyone who experiences the unresponsiveness followed by erratic movement fixed their problem with synclient TouchpadOff=0? And has anyone who experiences unresponsiveness WITHOUT the erratic movement NOT fixed their problem with that same solution?

I'm not that familiar with the inner workings of Ubuntu's pointer control, but if I'm not mistaken, synclient's TouchpadOff variable toggles based on whether the touchpad has been disabled by either the "disable while typing" setting or the "disable with external device connected" setting, is that correct? Which means if it were to get stuck at 1, and the touchpad is unresponsive, manually flipping it to 0 would re-enable the touchpad... I assume temporarily until the same bug occurs again.

But then, that would have nothing to do with the touchpad freezing and then starting to jump and click and drag everywhere.