Looks like this already got fixed a while back. Only difference is
instead of setting Device Enabled it sets Synaptics Off, which I assume
is sufficient else we'd have a lot more people complaining about broken
touchpads. ;-)
I kinda suspect this setting should be done via a udev rule rather
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
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syndaemon turns disabled touchpad back on after typing
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** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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syndaemon turns disabled touchpad back on after typing
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** Description changed:
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, the button on my Asus laptop that
toggled the touchpad on and off stopped working. The button is
controlled by the included /etc/acpi/asus-touchpad.sh, which uses
synclient to toggle the touchpad state. I turned on SHMConfig in my
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syndaemon turns disabled touchpad back on after typing
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Further investigation of this issue has seen me return to the vanilla
Xorg.conf (without SHMConfig turned on). The issue can be described more
simply as follows.
1. syndaemon, as launched by the default Intrepid install, is using XInput to
change the touchpad properties.
2. synclient uses
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