Thanks, Franz, for investigating this issue. The mouse module tries to ensure that at least one pointing device is present at any time. This is reasonable, as some people might have problems navigating the UI with only a keyboard if they accidentally disable all pointing devices.
However, the hardware button should still work and allow overriding that feature. Thus, I've attached a branch that only reenables the touchpad when a pointing device other than the touchpad itself was removed. I'd appreciate some testing, because I cannot reproduce this issue on my computer. Note that the touchpad will be reenabled after plugging and unplugging an external mouse or trackball. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454950 Title: It needs to press touchpad hotkey twice to re-enable touchpad Status in gnome-settings-daemon: Confirmed Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have a laptop: ASUS P452L and it has a hotkey (Fn+F9) to disable touchpad function. I found when I use the hotkey to disable the touchpat and then I have to press the hotkey twice to re-enable it. This is symptom cannot be found if: 1) using Kubuntu. 2) plug the usb mouse (any port is ok) Because it can't be reproduced in Kubuntu, I think it should be an issue of unity-settings-daemon. Platform: ASUS P451L Ubuntu: 14.04-LTS Unity-setting-daemon version: 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu2 Touchpad vendor: Elantech Note: This issue can be reproduced in Ubuntu 15.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1454950/+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
