I tried this again just now using Thunderbird; sure enough, as soon as I started to type an email address, I lost my touchpad.
So, it seems that every time I input text from the keyboard into any available application's text field, the touchpad becomes unavailable until I log out and back in again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938039 Title: Lose Touchpad functionality To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/938039/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp