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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #868400
  2. Comment #66

Comment 66 for bug 868400

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Rob Frohne (frohro) wrote : Re: Synaptics touchpad stops working

Hi All,

For the last couple of weeks I worked around this bug by assigning the keyboard shortcut CTRL-F9 to the command:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

but tonight that didn't work. I even typed that in at the terminal window to no avail. So then I went and got a USB mouse and when I connected it and clicked and moved around I found the touch pad worked again.

I find that the bug often occurs just after booting up, or resuming.

Rob