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Laptop touchpad is disabled after a while on an Asus X59GL

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I notice quite a few other questions on this subject, but so far none of them help me.

I have a Asus X59GL laptop that I upgraded from Natty to Oneiric and I'm experiencing a new bug. My touchpad gets disabled while I use the computer, i.e. it doesn't go to sleep or anything - I just find the touchpad doesn't work anymore after an undetermined amount of time. I unticked the "Disable while typing" option, but that didn't fix it. I can't find a "touchpad:touchpad" option in gconf, but somehow I don't think that would help me, since the touchpad is very enabled until it gets disabled.

I managed to get Google to tell me about synclient, and just earlier I re-enabled the touchpad using

synclient touchpadoff=0

from the terminal.

But I'd like not to do that.

There's no Fn-key combo for disabling the touchpad and this only started happening after upgrading to Oneiric.

Any ideas what disables the touchpad so I can go poke it with a stick?

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answered 1 Year ago shionnky · Accepted Answer

I've actually found the answer after a long time. There IS a Fn combo, but it's just not painted on the keyboard. Fn+C toggles the keypad. And I was pressing Fn+C in the dark instead of Ctrl+C, because someone who designs laptop keyboards for a living thought it would be alright to put the Fn key where the Ctrl key normally is.

So in the end it's not a Ubuntu bug. It's a laptop "feature".