Hi there,

with some keyboard shortcut I accidentally deactivated my touchpad. Unfortunately I could not figure out or find on the internet the shortcut that led to the deactivation. I remember that there was a little popup window that noted me on the deactivation.

Also in the system settings I can not find a key board shortcut or any possibility to reactivate the touchpad.

What works for me but only until the next restart is:

xinput list
xinput set-prop x "Device Enabled" 1

Any idea?

Regards

Hans

The key you pressed is likely the "Toggle touchpad" button on your keyboard, which on most laptops is accessed via the Fn key. On my system it is Fn + F7, however it will vary depending on the manufacturer.

Hi,

I was in a middle of a huge update on my Sabayon system. Before I restarted the system, I accidentally disabled the integrated touchpad when trying to increase brightness on my elderly HP laptop. I've encountered this before, and with a little help from an USB mouse I have been able to fix my errors. This time, however, I can not get touchpad back to life no matter what I try (using the graphical tools provided by the system).

It may be related to the distribution, it may be due unfortunate circumstances, but my basic point is this: why can't the key combination toggle status on/off? Why make KDE rocket science and humiliate users? Now, with Windows 8 with its lousy control and nonexistent control over running applications there is a chance to win new users. But what is needed, is something better than Google search links to old Nabbles etc.

Well, in case I'm the first one to encounter this problem... what can I do to help others that may be experiencing the same symptoms?[idea=]???[/idea]
Sure I can get the touchpad back to life by reinstalling the whole OS. IMHO that's a little too high a price for one little typing error, isn't it?

To my knowledge, the key - if it behaves as all others keys do - should toggle the touchpad on/off. Unfortunately some hardware behaves a little differently (the touchpad device may have disappeared entirely - or the key may be generating another key event now for instance).

If you logout, does the touchpad work at the login screen? If it does not, then it is quite likely your touchpad has been disabled at the hardware level - in which case a reboot may help.

If it does work at the login screen, then try disabling the "Touchpad Enabler" service in System Settings > Startup & Shutdown > Service Manager.

bcooksley wrote:To my knowledge, the key - if it behaves as all others keys do - should toggle the touchpad on/off. Unfortunately some hardware behaves a little differently (the touchpad device may have disappeared entirely - or the key may be generating another key event now for instance).

If you logout, does the touchpad work at the login screen? If it does not, then it is quite likely your touchpad has been disabled at the hardware level - in which case a reboot may help.

If it does work at the login screen, then try disabling the "Touchpad Enabler" service in System Settings > Startup & Shutdown > Service Manager.

OK, then it's my HW... tried reboot, no help. Then I found this:
To re-enable the touch pad, open ~/.kde/share/config/ktouchpadenablerrc with an editor and change it to
touchpadEnabled=true

http://raftaman.net/?p=1544


It's working again. Case closed.

Hi,

I was in a middle of a huge update on my Sabayon system. Before I restarted the system, I accidentally disabled the integrated touchpad when trying to increase brightness on my elderly HP laptop. I've encountered this before, and with a little help from an USB mouse I have been able to fix my errors. This time, however, I can not get touchpad back to life no matter what I try (using the graphical tools provided by the system).

It may be related to the distribution, it may be due unfortunate circumstances, but my basic point is this: why can't the key combination toggle status on/off? Why make KDE rocket science and humiliate users? Now, with Windows 8 with its lousy control and nonexistent control over running applications there is a chance to win new users. But what is needed, is something better than Google search links to old Nabbles etc.

Thanks for sharing this topic.

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