Re: Package name HELP!

From	kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Package name HELP!
Date	2017-03-26 01:10 +0100
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On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:54 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi
<raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Ayoub Hamdaoui <ihmd001@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I am using Debian 9 (Testing) with KDE
>> when I press hotkeys for disabling touchpad (FN + F1) the touchpad got
>> disabled but when I press the combination again it sends disable command
>> again! it doesn't toggle thee state, it disable it in all cases! so I want
>> to know the package name to report !
>> Thank you in advance!
>
> Is the problem specific to KDE? For example, does the touchpad perform
> as expected if you run another desktop environment such as Xfce or
> LXDE?
>
> If the problem is specific to KDE, I would start with plasma-desktop
> and request the maintainer to reassign as he sees fit.
>
> If the problem is not specific to KDE, then it could be due to the
> driver. I see five packages which provide input drivers for touchpads.
>
>  % apt-cache search touchpad driver
> xserver-xorg-input-mtrack - Multitouch X input driver
> xserver-xorg-input-multitouch - Multitouch X input driver
> xserver-xorg-input-libinput - X.Org X server -- libinput input driver
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dev - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org
> server (development headers)
>
> If you are using any of these, try to reduce the problem to a single
> package and then report the bug against it.
>

One more thing. To find out the touchpad driver you are currently
using look in the xorg logs. For example

grep -i touchpad /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Package name HELP! Ayoub Hamdaoui <ihmd001@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 20:00 +0100
  Re: Package name HELP! Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 21:10 +0100
  Re: Package name HELP! kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 01:00 +0100
    Re: Package name HELP! kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 01:10 +0100

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