Bug 341804

Summary:	Cannot disable touchpad
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Timothy Murphy <gayleard>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Timothy Murphy 2014-12-12 11:18:29 UTC

I upgraded my ThinkPad-T510 to Fedora-21 from Fedora-20/KDE with fedup.
I want to disable the touchpad completely, and use the pointing stick instead.
This used to be possible in System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad but the option appears to have been removed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into Fedora-21
2. Go to System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices
3. Cannot find option to disable touchpad

Actual Results:  
No option available, touchpad cannot be disables

Expected Results:  
It was possible to disable the touchpad in Fedora-20/KDE

Please put back the optiion if it has indeed been removed.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-12-12 11:22:05 UTC

ktouchpadenabler has nothing to do with that, it only listens to the key that enables/disables the touchpad and acts accordingly (if your laptop has that key)

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2014-12-12 12:45:18 UTC

You need to install the kcm-touchpad module. Please ask in a forum of your distribution for exact package names.