Update breaks synclient: can't turn off touchpad !

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Linuxguy123<linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> #cat /log/yum.log | grep synaptics
> Jul 27 22:57:12 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.1.2-1.fc11.i586
>
> Now I can't turn off my touchpad via gsynaptics nor with synclient
> TouchPadOff=1 (or 0 or 2, for good measure).
>
> How do I turn off my touchpad ?

I submitted for review the successor of gsynaptics, gpointing-device-settings:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509310

in the meanwhile, you can disable the touchpad with the xinput command like in:

1. xinput --list
2. locate the id of your touchpad from the list
3. xinput --list-props id (where id comes from 2.)
4. note the "Device Enabled" property id (pid)
5. xinput --set-int-prop id pid 8 0

HTH

G.

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