[Bug 300523] [NEW] syndaemon turns disabled touchpad back on after typing

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Bryce Harrington (bryce):

When I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, the button on my Asus laptop that
toggled the touchpad on and off stopped working. The button is
controlled by the included /etc/acpi/asus-touchpad.sh, which uses
synclient to toggle the touchpad state. I turned on SHMConfig in my
Xorg.conf and the button started working again.

Now, however, when I have the touchpad disabled, syndaemon (run with -i
0.5) will re-enable it after I type something. This behavior was not
observed in Ubuntu 8.04; I expect that syndaemon will set the touchpad
back to its previous state after the typing timeout, as opposed to
always returning it to the "enabled" state. My current workaround for
this is to run syndaemon with -S, which apparently causes it to use the
SHMConfig-based system instead of the new XInput-based system
(reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=948250&page=2).

So, it seems to me that the XInput-based syndaemon should get this behavior right too, unless of course the asus-touchpad.sh script is toggling the touchpad status in an incorrect way.
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller [8086:2590] (rev 04)
    	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1882]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04)
    	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1882]

** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: intrepid
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syndaemon turns disabled touchpad back on after typing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300523
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