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gnome-settings-daemon package

media button to disable touchpad not working

Bug #1826544 reported by Tim Tisdall
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Settings Daemon
Fix Released
Unknown
gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

I have an ASUS UX305CA laptop and after upgrading to 18.04 I am no longer able to disable the touchpad by hitting Fn+F9 . When I hit Fn+F9 it shows the graphic indicating that it's disabling the touchpad, but the touchpad continues to work. I tried using a LiveUSB copy of 18.04 and it the button works fine, so there seems to be something related to upgrading. I upgrading from 16.04 where it worked fine before.

I'm not sure which package to file this bug against, sorry.

Here are some details:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ lsmod | grep asus
asus_nb_wmi 28672 0
asus_wmi 28672 1 asus_nb_wmi
sparse_keymap 16384 1 asus_wmi
wmi 24576 1 asus_wmi
video 45056 2 asus_wmi,i915
asus_wireless 16384 0
$ dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/send-events
'enabled'

I also went through a diff between gsettings on the LiveUSB and my current install and nothing stood out to me as being related. I do have `org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-im-module 'ibus'` which differs from LiveUSB which is set to 'gtk-im-context-simple', but I don't know if it's related.

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Tim Tisdall (tisdall) wrote :

I really have no idea what package to file this against because I don't know where the disconnect lies nor how to determine that. Please let me know what additional information is needed.

affects: ubuntu → gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Does it work if you connect with another user? Could you also add your journalctl log to the bug after getting the issue

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Tim Tisdall (tisdall) wrote :

I'm not sure I understand your questions...

If you're asking if I have the same problem when logging in with a different user, then "yes" it also doesn't work when logging in with a 2nd account that's on my machine. That 2nd account existed before the upgrade to 18.04.

Also, the keys to disable the touchpad work fine on the login screen.

The only thing I see in journalctl is this:

Apr 29 10:43:47 zenbook org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3232]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 73 with keysym 73 (keycode 2f).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Yes, that's what I was asking, weird bug... it might be worth reporting upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues

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Tim Tisdall (tisdall) wrote :

Help me with the history, though... I started on this machine with 15.10, then 16.04, and now 18.04. Wasn't 16.04 _not_ Gnome but Unity instead? This seems to be an issue with some left-over setting from 16.04 that's messing up 18.04. (unless it's something left over from 15.10)

There's so many layers that a keypress goes through that I'm lost as to where the issue should be reported. :(

I'll try reporting with Gnome and see if anyone has any ideas. Thanks for taking the time to look at this!

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Tim Tisdall (tisdall) wrote :

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1235

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
status: New → Fix Released
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