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[Lars Uebernickel <lars@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Franz, for investigating this issue.

The mouse module tries to ensure that at least one pointing device is
present at any time. This is reasonable, as some people might have
problems navigating the UI with only a keyboard if they accidentally
disable all pointing devices.

However, the hardware button should still work and allow overriding that
feature. Thus, I've attached a branch that only reenables the touchpad
when a pointing device other than the touchpad itself was removed. I'd
appreciate some testing, because I cannot reproduce this issue on my
computer.

Note that the touchpad will be reenabled after plugging and unplugging
an external mouse or trackball.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454950

Title:
  It needs to press touchpad hotkey twice to re-enable touchpad

Status in gnome-settings-daemon:
  Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have a laptop: ASUS P452L and it has a hotkey (Fn+F9) to disable touchpad function.
  I found when I use the hotkey to disable the touchpat and then I have to press the hotkey
  twice to re-enable it.

  This is symptom cannot be found if:
  1) using Kubuntu.
  2) plug the usb mouse (any port is ok)

  Because it can't be reproduced in Kubuntu, I think it should be an
  issue of unity-settings-daemon.

  Platform: ASUS P451L
  Ubuntu: 14.04-LTS
  Unity-setting-daemon version: 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu2
  Touchpad vendor: Elantech

  Note: This issue can be reproduced in Ubuntu 15.04.

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