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Bug 611987

Summary:	touchpad disable (fn-f8) on lenovo laptops does nothing.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dave Airlie <airlied>
Component:	gnome-settings-daemon	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	btissoir, hkrzesin, mclasen, mdomonko
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	841419, 1146711

Description Dave Airlie 2010-07-06 23:26:00 UTC

This works in Fedora, and draws a nice icon, in RHEL6 it does nothing.

I think we need to upgrade xkeyboard-config and backport some fixes to g-s-d.

If we agree its a good idea, we can clone this for xkeyboard-config.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2010-07-15 14:56:31 UTC

This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. It has
been denied for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

** If you would still like this issue considered for the current
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Comment 2 Herton R. Krzesinski 2014-12-10 20:37:08 UTC

As of RHEL 6.6, this bug is still present in gnome settings daemon which it includes. And recently we have some support requests too requesting the touchpad hotkey functionality on lenovo laptops.

I was looking into what would be required for a backport. In summary these gnome-settings-daemon commits are needed:

62ffa31710ed4b9bb009d674da91201f6a4ca332
[media-keys] Make OSD display more generic

221049d0e48243b236ba6de01acf416df3dabfec
Add keybinding schema to enable/disable touchpad

c5b8b0058dbfac9b3ec7ca090e7b37589e9aef62
Display a dialog box when enabling/disabling the touchpad.

045935aff4693375221ca3011c51fc08fc6736df
Add touchpad_enabled gconf key.

After some tinkering with the changes I prepared a package with these changes and a reporter tells it worked out, after fixing the hal-info key mapping (bug 841419).

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2015-02-11 16:03:10 UTC

(In reply to Herton R. Krzesinski from comment #2)
> As of RHEL 6.6, this bug is still present in gnome settings daemon which it
> includes. And recently we have some support requests too requesting the
> touchpad hotkey functionality on lenovo laptops.
> 
> I was looking into what would be required for a backport. In summary these
> gnome-settings-daemon commits are needed:
> 
> 62ffa31710ed4b9bb009d674da91201f6a4ca332
> [media-keys] Make OSD display more generic
> 
> 221049d0e48243b236ba6de01acf416df3dabfec
> Add keybinding schema to enable/disable touchpad
> 
> c5b8b0058dbfac9b3ec7ca090e7b37589e9aef62
> Display a dialog box when enabling/disabling the touchpad.
> 
> 045935aff4693375221ca3011c51fc08fc6736df
> Add touchpad_enabled gconf key.
> 
> After some tinkering with the changes I prepared a package with these
> changes and a reporter tells it worked out, after fixing the hal-info key
> mapping (bug 841419).

Unfortunately, this also requires UI changes in the control-center package, otherwise you only get half of the support, eg. the ability to re-enable the touchpad, which also means we'll need to drag in translations.

Given that this is already supported on newer versions of GNOME, in RHEL7, NAKing this.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2015-02-11 16:05:53 UTC

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.