Hello,
Recently for some unbeknownst reason my AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad is disabled when logging into my account in KDE. If I login to other accounts it works fine. The only way to enable the touchpad is to run xinput enable 13 but of course it reverts to being disabled after reboot. Does anyone know how to make KDE keep the touchpad enabled after logout or reboots?
Thanks,
Sean
And if you go to menu / Configure Desktop / Hardware / Input Devices / Touchpad, what options do you get there? You can write a bash script, place it in $HOME/bin as the file et (Enable Touchpad) that has only:
#!/bin/bash
xinput enable 13
In it, then use this command to mark it executable:
chmod +x $HOME/bin/et
You can then go to menu / Configure Desktop / System Administration / Startup and Shutdown / Autostart / Add Script and seach and find your et script in ~/bin. It then gets run on each login to KDE automatically.
Thank You,
jdmcdaniel3, thanks for your reply.
I checked out the KDE Configure Desktop and the touchpad doesn’t have any kind of on/off switch. I was wondering why it seemed to disable when KDE logged in so I checked xinput and the id of my touchpad was 13. I wrote the script you suggested and rebooted and the mouse still didn’t work. Turns out it was now on ID 14. Here is a dump of xinput:
sean@linux-1yek:~> xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (ite-cir) id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Webcam id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ITE8708 CIR transceiver id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
and after reboot:
sean@linux-1yek:~> xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (ite-cir) id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Webcam id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ITE8708 CIR transceiver id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
So I have no idea why the devices are swapping around their ID’s. I added several of the ID’s to the script you suggested but it doesn’t work on startup or when set to pre-kde startup.
Correction: I added the script as a program in Configure Desktop > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart and it works fine. I just added xinput enable for both 13 and 14 since they keep switching.
Works great, thanks for your assistance.
Sounds like you got it fixed then. Adding in and becoming a different user may also work as you suggest, but this is less trouble if it keeps working for you. Happy to hear you found the solution.
Thank You,