This reminds me of 2012 when they released the unity desktop for 12.04 LTS
(the first Unity LTS release, unless I'm forgetting something). Unity adds
a lot of keyboard-driven functionality that typically wasn't included in
many distros by default.
I was at oscon that year, and I stopped by the
Found it!
super held down launches keyboard short cut list.
super 9 launches system settings, then two tabs followed by four right
arrows gets to Mouse and touchpad icon.
Enter then launches the Mouse and touchpad screen. Then three tabs and
Enter toggles the touchpad on.
Now the touchpad is on,
Looks like I need to update my desktop comparison table with the following:
+-+
| DE | Score |
+-+
| KDE | 1|
| Ubuntu | 0|
+-+
Sorry, I like competition. Gotta compare those pros and cons :)
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:44 PM
Great idea for a keyboard shortcut. But Ubuntu 18.04 does not seem to have
a default related to the touchpad. I will have to learn how to create a
custom shortcut.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:47 PM Ben Koenig wrote:
> Wow, according to the manual for the x240 there isn't an Fn
> combination to
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Any suggestions for a recovery should I have a failure?
Denis,
Buy a small wired mouse. They come with thin cords on a spring-loaded reel.
Pull out as much as you need. When finished pull slightly to release the
lock and let the spring rewind the
Wow, according to the manual for the x240 there isn't an Fn
combination to enable/disable the touchpad. And now that I look at my
Thinkpad E485... I don't have one either. Maybe that's the new trend.
Alternatively, you could set a normal keyboard shorcut in your desktop
of choice. I'm using KDE5
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
On my Lenovo X240 I have the trackpad disabled because my errant thumbs
have a nasty tendency to move the pointer around unwittingly. I use a
wireless USB mouse, which is always fine. Except if the mouse were to
fail, I have no way to do anything, including saving,
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:07 PM Denis Heidtmann
wrote:
>
> On my Lenovo X240 I have the trackpad disabled because my errant thumbs
> have a nasty tendency to move the pointer around unwittingly. I use a
> wireless USB mouse, which is always fine. Except if the mouse were to
> fail, I have no way
On my Lenovo X240 I have the trackpad disabled because my errant thumbs
have a nasty tendency to move the pointer around unwittingly. I use a
wireless USB mouse, which is always fine. Except if the mouse were to
fail, I have no way to do anything, including saving, shutting down, or
other
