GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 623916
gp-d-s not compatible with Fn-F8
Last modified: 2018-08-17 18:36:57 UTC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612530 Description of problem: Starting with Fedora 13, the Fn-F8 key can enable and disable the touchpad and even gives a nice visual (OSD). The problem is that it uses a different method for enabling and disabling the touchpad then gpointing-device-settings uses. As such it is possible for the user to disable the touchpad in gpointing-device-settings and try to re-enable it with Fn-F8 (which will indicate through OSD that it is enabled) and find it does not actually work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gpointing-device-settings-1.5.1-2.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. disable touchpad with gpointing-device-settings 2. press Fn-F8 3. Actual results: Touchpad does not work Expected results: Touchpad should be re-enabled Additional info: I'm not saying this is a bug in gpointing-device-settings, but I have no idea what package is responsible with the Fn-F8 switching, and they really should use the same enable/disable method
GPointingDeviceSettings is not under active development anymore and saw its last non-cosmetic code changes in 2010. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gpointing-device-settings/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.