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[Ian Chan <nolens.volens@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Upon seeing that someone wanted to disable and enable the touchpad in a
convenient manner, I dug around the gconf editor for this little fix.

For those of you who want to disable the touchpad conveniently, you can add
a keyboard shortcut to disable and enable the touchpad. I believe gconf
editor is native to all recent ubuntu releases, but if you don't have it,
search up gconf in the synaptic package manager.

1) Go to System->Preferences-> Keyboard Shorcuts.
2) Click the add button at the button.
3) A window should pop up, and you can make it whatever name you want.
("Toggle touchpad" seems good)
4) In the command field, you should put:

gconftool-2 --toggle /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/touchpad_enabled

5) click apply.

Now at this point, the shortcut is set up, but not initialized.
6) Click the part where it says "disabled" next to the shortcut you made.
(clicking the shortcut name itself will bring back the prompt you saw
before.) This part should become highlighted and "new shortcut...".

7) Press the key combination you would like to assign as the shortcut. I
used Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Z, since it's one handed, but unlikely to be triggered
all at the same time. Unless you have a cat. Or a fat hamster. Etc.

Hopefully this works as well for you guys as it did for me,
Ian Chan





On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Adam Mohr <booshire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hello Patrick -
>
> That is the same way mine was. I wish I knew what updated. I installed the
> backports and it still works for me. A while ago I had a plan setup to write
> a simple script to enable and disable it.
> On Ibex, when I pushed the button it popped up with an Ubuntu Help menu of
> some kind. I thought I could sniff the button signal and attach it to a
> script which will disable and enable it. For some reason I never pursued it.
> I will click around a little this week, probably at work, and see what I
> find for you.
>
>
> Adam
>
> Patrick Bauer wrote:
>
> hi Adam:
>
> I really had no choice installing linux-backorts-modules-jaunty when i did
> because i was lucky if i was able to get wireless working at all, after
> logging in.
>
> When i hit the button above the touchpad, the LED will alternate between
> white and amber (and back again), but i'm still able to move the pointer
> with the touchpad (even though the LED is amber).  I can disable the
> touchpad  through mouse preferences, by unchecking "enable touchpad", but
> i'm screwed if i don't have a mouse (to enable it again).
>
> Pat
>
> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 10:48 -0600, Adam Mohr wrote:
>
> FYI -
>
> My touchpad disable button started working a week or two ago. I assume
> there was an update for some random package or driver. It is pretty awesome
> being I use it all the time now. (model G60-230US). I did not have
> backports installed
> as mentioned below. I just installed them to see what would change...not
> really best practices
> I guess.
>
> Adam
>
> Patrick Bauer wrote:
>
> hi Arthur:
>
> Did you try to install the latest linux-backorts-modules-jaunty package ?
> It fixed a lot of wireless issues for me:
> sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
>
> The only thing is that sometimes there seems to be a "pause" in wireless
> communications.  I'm not sure if that's the result of this latest driver, or
> a router issue.
>
> With this latest driver (from backports), the default action is for the
> wireless LED indicator to stay blue.  When there's wireless activity, the
> LED will alternate back and forth between blue and amber.  I think that's
> kinda neat :)
>
> Everything is working pretty much well with my G60 (MN: G60-126CA), except
> i can't disable the touchpad (like everyone else can't), and
> resume-from-suspend doesn't work (get a blank screen with a blinking cursor
> in upper left hand corner).  With there was a solution for that as i hate to
> keep my laptop on 24/7.
>
> Pat
>
> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 02:17 -0500, Arthur Rosene wrote:
>
> Anyone happen to know how to turn the red function LED light in jaunty from
> red to its correct blue color ?  its red, however the button is actually in
> its "on" status.
>
> if anyone knows how to tweak jaunty so it will correctly display on for the
> G60 I would appreciate that information.
>
> thank you
>
>
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