Description of problem: Starting with Fedora 13, the Fn-F8 key can enable and disable the touchpad and even gives a nice visual (OSD). The problem is that it uses a different method for enabling and disabling the touchpad then gpointing-device-settings uses. As such it is possible for the user to disable the touchpad in gpointing-device-settings and try to re-enable it with Fn-F8 (which will indicate through OSD that it is enabled) and find it does not actually work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gpointing-device-settings-1.5.1-2.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. disable touchpad with gpointing-device-settings 2. press Fn-F8 3. Actual results: Touchpad does not work Expected results: Touchpad should be re-enabled Additional info: I'm not saying this is a bug in gpointing-device-settings, but I have no idea what package is responsible with the Fn-F8 switching, and they really should use the same enable/disable method
I guess this is a bug/RFE for the upstream author. It would be great if you could raise the issue at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GPointingDeviceSettings feel free to reference this report and add me in CC so I can update the package as soon as it's implemented
Thanks, you rock :)
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Lately, I orphaned this package but forgot to reassign existing issues. Doing it now
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