[opensuse] touchpad thing in KDE/kernel
You guys know the KDE touchpad thing (Kde 4) is bugged?. I have a switch on my laptop that can turn the touchpad off. I accidentally hit it. I had it in the past (in another Linux distro) that it would claim my TP was off when it was on. Now it won't turn on again. I can't mouse and I don't have another mouse available to plug in. The only reason I can really mail is because this is Alpine on some remote server that was alread logged on (without mouse I would be hard fetched to turn NetworkManager on). I feel I'll have to log out so I'm rounding up my work here. Very... disrupting. VERY VERY VERY disrupting. Almost as bad as a computer crash in some way. Regards. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Xen wrote:
You guys know the KDE touchpad thing (Kde 4) is bugged?.
So you hit this button and it turns a flag to false in .kde4/share/config/ktouchpadenablerrc And this disables your mouse WHILE IN KDE but as soon as you log out it works again. And then when you log in again it disables it because it persists in between sessions. Really awesome. And so the only way to get it is to manually edit the file. There is only one command that is more useful than any other command I ever use. And it is not an easy command but once you learn it. There really should be a shell script or alias for it. Or a shell function defined in .bashrc function findinfiles() { find -type f -exec grep -iH "$1" \{\} \; } Saved my life once again? How would any normal computer user deal with this? Not. Anyway, I don't know that since this is KDE4, this bug can still be fixed? Should I file for it? It seems to pointless. Regards, X. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
find -type f -exec grep -iH "$1" \{\} \;
I just use grep -ri "searchstring" . which searches every file in the current folder and below. Quickest way I've found to do it. And yeah, that "disable the mouse pointer in KDE" option has bitten me before too :/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 09/01/2015 11:39 AM, Xen wrote:
Now it won't turn on again.
As an owner of a ThinkPad with both a touch pad and TrackPoint, my question is why on earth would you want to use one??? I've hated those things ever since I had the misfortune of using one on a Toshiba computer running Windows 95. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, James Knott wrote:
On 09/01/2015 11:39 AM, Xen wrote:
Now it won't turn on again.
As an owner of a ThinkPad with both a touch pad and TrackPoint, my question is why on earth would you want to use one??? I've hated those things ever since I had the misfortune of using one on a Toshiba computer running Windows 95.
Erm... because it's on the thing and I am not in the position to use any mouse and... because?. The thing is supposed to have a kind of trackpoint too but it doesn't work, I don't know why, the previous exemplar I had of this model/laptop did have one that worked, but I still didn't use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
As an owner of a ThinkPad with both a touch pad and TrackPoint, my question is why on earth would you want to use one??? I've hated those things ever since I had the misfortune of using one on a Toshiba computer running Windows 95.
I can think of a number of scenarios: - Sitting in a car - Sitting on the couch - airplanes - riding the el - out in the yard - crammed in a wiring closet balancing your laptop on your knee - any other scenario when you're working in precarious/awkward/non-flat/small environment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Christopher Myers wrote:
As an owner of a ThinkPad with both a touch pad and TrackPoint, my question is why on earth would you want to use one??? I've hated those things ever since I had the misfortune of using one on a Toshiba computer running Windows 95.
I can think of a number of scenarios:
And lying on a bed, which is most of what I do.
- Sitting in a car - Sitting on the couch - airplanes - riding the el - out in the yard - crammed in a wiring closet balancing your laptop on your knee - any other scenario when you're working in precarious/awkward/non-flat/small environment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 09/02/2015 04:29 PM, Xen wrote:
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, James Knott wrote:
On 09/01/2015 11:39 AM, Xen wrote:
Now it won't turn on again.
As an owner of a ThinkPad with both a touch pad and TrackPoint, my question is why on earth would you want to use one??? I've hated those things ever since I had the misfortune of using one on a Toshiba computer running Windows 95.
Erm... because it's on the thing and I am not in the position to use any mouse and... because?.
The thing is supposed to have a kind of trackpoint too but it doesn't work, I don't know why, the previous exemplar I had of this model/laptop did have one that worked, but I still didn't use it.
Not sure if this is of any use, but some Thinkpads have a BIOS setting to turn the trackpoint on/off. So, if yours is not working and you need to use it, perhaps look in there to turn it on. Gustav. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 09/02/2015 06:55 PM, Gustav Degreef wrote:
Not sure if this is of any use, but some Thinkpads have a BIOS setting to turn the trackpoint on/off. So, if yours is not working and you need to use it, perhaps look in there to turn it on. Gustav.
No it doesn't have that setting I believe. I am accustomed to this model, had a prior one that worked 'much better'. When I first ran this thing in Windows, after a while it started having Blue Screens. Windows would have very weird lockups or hangups or mouse not moving at all (mouse pointer) and all that. I wondered if my laptop was kaduk but switching to Linux nothing ever appeared again, although KDE is very irresponsive at times. The thing is also physically damaged at places and the two extra 'mouse buttons' that it has (it has 4) don't work. Erm... I thought they didn't. They do work :P. No, I'm mistaken again. Too tired. They don't work :P. Haha. For the rest of it it works fine but I'm not entirely too happy with it, the older/other model I had (same type) was way better and in better condition. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/09/15 17:39, Xen wrote:
You guys know the KDE touchpad thing (Kde 4) is bugged?.
I have a switch on my laptop that can turn the touchpad off.
I accidentally hit it.
I had it in the past (in another Linux distro) that it would claim my TP was off when it was on.
Now it won't turn on again. I can't mouse and I don't have another mouse available to plug in. The only reason I can really mail is because this is Alpine on some remote server that was alread logged on (without mouse I would be hard fetched to turn NetworkManager on).
I feel I'll have to log out so I'm rounding up my work here. Very... disrupting. VERY VERY VERY disrupting. Almost as bad as a computer crash in some way.
Regards.
I had issues with my Dell laptop's touchpad when I first ran it with openSUSE and KDE. My memory is not so good, especially having just had a beer, but maybe it was this same kind of issue. Whatever, I found that in KDE's System Settings, under Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager, if I unchecked the KDE Touchpad Enabler Daemon, I no longer had the issues. You might think that unchecking that box would disable the touchpad completely. On my laptop that's not the case, it works fine, it just doesn't get buggered up any more. So maybe that'll work in your case too. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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