On 2014-12-29 13:26, Michael Butash wrote:
I have/had a weird issue like this using lmde with mate, where recently my trackpad would stop working on me after about a minute into using the desktop from lightdm login manager. I tried fiddling with the trackpad settings, seemed something related to the desktop is "turning it off", but I've no idea what, and see no dmesg/syslog output occur when it does.
Something somewhere might be doing the equivalent of "synclient TouchpadOff=1". Just running synclient should show you a whole bunch of data about the touchpad settings. (I generally run that on my laptop, as I have a Trackpoint, which means the touchpad is completely superfluous.)
Quick fix was moving to kde, as cinnamon already proved far too buggy for use, and apparently so is mate as that was the final straw. I migrated from mate to kde on my desktop as well as mate provided all sorts of new and not-so-interesting bugs there as well.
I do not know why so many desktop environments have become such piles of useless junk in the last few years. At least the KDE people learned from the problems with the 3.5->4.0 thing, and have not repeated those silly blunders yet.
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