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Bug 749269 - the touchpad section disappears after disabling the touchpad
the touchpad section disappears after disabling the touchpad
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 747504
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Mouse
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Ondrej Holy
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-05-12 15:50 UTC by PLR
Modified: 2015-05-12 15:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description PLR 2015-05-12 15:50:16 UTC 
Hi,

in gnome-control-center > Mouse & Touchpad window, the window is split in 3 sections: General, Mouse, Touchpad.
In the touchpad section there is an ON|OFF button that is by default on ON. If I click on the button to set it to OFF, the touchpad is desactivated and the whole touchpad section disappears, making it impossible to set the button to ON again since it's not there anymore (and thus you can't reactivate the touchpad).


Work-around
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The gsettings command can be used to enable the touchpad again, and make the disappeared section appear again.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled


Hardware & software
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I'm on Archlinux (up to date), using gnome-control-center version 3.16.1-2, build date 2015-04-17T15:39:29 CEST.
This behavior has been reproduced on another laptop (different hardware) with the same gnome version.
Comment 1 Rui Matos 2015-05-12 15:51:44 UTC 
Fixed in 3.16.2 via a patch in g-s-d

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 747504 ***