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  • Disabling/enabling touch pad on keyboard

    From Erwan David@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 20 21:20:02 2022
    Hi,

    I use debian testing. Sometime, by walking on the keyboard my cat
    disables the touchpad of my Lenovo T590. I used to be able to get it
    back by disabling and reenabling it in the system settings (or with the
    systrau "touchpad" icon), but it does not do anything anymore .

    Do someone have a solution to reenabe it without logging out ?

    Thanks

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  • From Shai Berger@21:1/5 to Erwan David on Sat Jan 22 21:10:01 2022
    On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:13:04 +0100
    Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:

    Hi,

    I use debian testing. Sometime, by walking on the keyboard my cat
    disables the touchpad of my Lenovo T590. I used to be able to get it
    back by disabling and reenabling it in the system settings (or with
    the systrau "touchpad" icon), but it does not do anything anymore .

    Do someone have a solution to reenabe it without logging out ?

    Thanks


    I have a setting that disables the touchpad when a mouse is connected.
    Maybe this setting is on for you, and maybe, for some reason, your
    system decided that the Lenovo red controller (not sure what it's
    called) is a mouse, so that's where I'd look.

    Far fetched, but since there appear to be no better ideas...

    HTH,
    Shai.

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