Touchpad-indicator

touchpad-indicator not disabling keyboard under ubuntu 16.04

Asked by Florian H

Hi,

I had a recent update of some components of ubuntu 16.04 on my dell inspiron 1500 notebook. Before, touchpad-indicator worked perfectly and was set to permanently disable the touchpad (using a shortkey for enabling it when necessary). After the update, the touchpad was permanently enabled and I have no chance to disable it using the touchpad indicator (neither via shortkey nor via context menu nor the setting disabling at startup works). As there are no error or debug messages available, I was wondering if anyone could help me identifying the issue please.

Used version of touchpad-indicator: 1.1.0-0extras15.04.3-src.

Thanks in advance for your help.

yucosuma

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

This seems to be the same problem as already reported in Bug #1705878

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Florian H (yucosuma) said : 		#2

Hi Manfred,

Thanks for this information. Indeed, this seems to be the same behaviour.

Cheers

yucosuma

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Florian H (yucosuma) said : 		#3

Found to be related to #1705735 Same behaviour as described there. After update, of xinput, the touchpad is recognised as "DELL0767:00 06CB:7E92 Touchpad" instead of Synaptics Touchpad