After messing around with my 50-synaptics.conf file, a problem cropped up. After the computer goes to sleep or the lid is closed, the touchpad does not work. At first the touchpad still worked on the password entry screen, but now it is frozen there too. I thought it might have to do with some changes I made to 50-synaptics.conf but after commenting them out, the problem persisted. I tried disabling and re-enabling the KDE touchpad enabler, but to no avail.
does not restore the touchpad even temporarily.
other details: shortly before this problem a rose I ran:
But that was only active for that session as demonstrated by the fact that typing is not disabling the touchpad right now.
I also just installed mySQL server and started it. Stopping it did not alleviate the problem.
And here is the 50-synaptics.conf file contents, in case there is something weird about it that maybe I did uninetionionally
Anybody have an ideas about what I might try next? Should I reinstall synaptics?
Code:
synclient TouchpadOff=0other details: shortly before this problem a rose I ran:
Code:
syndaemon -k -i 2 -dI also just installed mySQL server and started it. Stopping it did not alleviate the problem.
And here is the 50-synaptics.conf file contents, in case there is something weird about it that maybe I did uninetionionally
Code:
# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
# Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
# enable tap-to-click as default (bnc#722457)
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton3" "2"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchOS "Linux"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection
# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on
# non-synaptics clickpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
MatchDriver "synaptics"
Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
# To disable the bottom edge area so the buttons only work as buttons,
# not for movement, set the AreaBottomEdge
# Option "AreaBottomEdge" "82%"
EndSection
# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
MatchDriver "synaptics"
Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection