I can't tell you for sure if disabling via synclient would work, because manually I didn't try it and I am quite busy lately. Though I've tried gnome shell touchpad indicator extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/131/touchpad-indicator/) in ubuntu gnome 13.10 as this is what I am using right now and neither options work correctly (neither synclient method). But I can help you in another way: I kind of fixed the bug with 2 scripts I made. The ideea to successfully disable touchpad is to execute these lines:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled 'false' sleep 1s gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled 'false' As you you can see,running the first command twice (at an interval of 1 sec) just does the job correctly. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z1jt4zltwsrhpb/touchpadscript.zip The scripts in the archive work as follows: - touchpad status is 1 when touchpad is enabled - 0 when touchpad disabled - touchpad-select is used to change ~/.touchpad/touchpad-status from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 0, also to assure that syndaemon will be deactivated or activated with my settings, and easystroke loads the touchpadmode/mousemode settings. - touchpad-scan is started by default from startup applications and it assures that the touchpad settings and mouse settings are accordingly to touchpad-status value ( because when unplugging mouse, when switching to and from tty consoles, or when ressuming from suspend touchpad is enabled automatically) - touchpad-scan will also kill touchpad-select, as touchpad select will have easystroke as a child process, and I don't want that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245412 Title: Enable/Disable Touchpad not working correctly Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I am on Ubuntu 13.10 amd64 and from the begining I noticed that every time the distro boots and, after login, the touchpad is active, even if before shutting it down I have had disabled it. This was not a problem in 13.04, if the laptop was shutt down with touchpad disabled it would have started with it disabled. Now of course I loved that, so I decided to make a tweak based on gsettings. I mean reading 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled' value at log out, saving it in a file, then, at login reading that value with a startup script and writing it to the same location. I didn't test it all the way, because when playing with 'gsettings set', 'gsettings get', and the Fn touchpad key I've noticed discrepancies in the settings read with dconf and the actual results of disabling/enabling touchpad with the Fn key. Disabling touchpad with keyboard, doesn't necessary change 'org.gnome .settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled' value and the same way arround (at least not immedeatly). The syncronization is faulty. This is mostly likely the reason why Touchpad Indicator Extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/131/touchpad-indicator/) does not work well (It is not able to reenable touchpad after mouse being unplugged). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None Date: Mon Oct 28 11:51:25 2013 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: saucy DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: acpi-call, 20130623, 3.11.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed bbswitch, 0.7, 3.11.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed nvidia-304, 304.88, 3.11.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed tp-smapi, 0.41, 3.11.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed vboxhost, 4.3.0, 3.11.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1457] NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce 610M] [10de:1058] (rev ff) (prog-if ff) InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (10 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131017) MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K55VD MarkForUpload: True ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic root=UUID=8bc18e61-3e17-496d-9cad-c098160e0e98 ro splash quiet "acpi_osi=!Windows 2012" SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/11/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: K55VD.411 dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567 dmi.board.name: K55VD dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrK55VD.411:bd03/11/2013:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnK55VD:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnK55VD:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0: dmi.product.name: K55VD dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. version.compiz: compiz N/A version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1 xserver.bootTime: Mon Oct 28 09:36:14 2013 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 9964 vendor AUO xserver.version: 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1245412/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
