I can not disable touchpad through "gnome-mouse-properties"

"Enable touchpad" is off, but touchpad still working

Hi there.

I have *exactly* the opposite problem: I'm using the most up-to-date karmic possible, I have a Dell Latitude D520 and I want to use the touchpad with tapping, but I have not succeded with using "gnome-mouse-properties" or with "gpointing-device-settings".

Changing the xorg.conf to have hard-coded settings does not work (it just seems to be read according to the log, but things like, say, the keyboard layout specified there and the dontzap option seem to be ignored completely).

Anyway, the only workaround that I found was to use:

synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3

due to upstream's decision of removing tapping if a touchpad has at least one button (as is documented in the synaptics(4) manpage).

Thanks, Rogério Brito.

Changing package to gnome-control-center. This is a problem because gnome-control center is changing gconf settings in /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/ like the old gnome-settings-daemon touchpad settings used, but g-s-d uses /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/ now. The result is g-s-d is loading the default /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/ settings every boot, after hal so you can't change it through a fdi even. The bug has been fixed in g-c-c 2.27.4 which has the touchpad tab working with all of the new settings.

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-control-center/commit/?id=e14a84a718d9882d320de1f359c0547836a9b4e3

Hi :) I see changes, but my problem is still present.

Robert, Can You add setting e.g. "Completely disable touchpad" or "Completely disable touchpad, when mouse is plugged in" ?

Sorry for my English :)

Thanks for your work