Fn F3 is the toggle for the touchpad in Gnome. In Xfce most of the function keys work as expected except for Fn F3. Initially on booting synclient reports TouchpadOff=1 even though the touchpad is functional. Subsequently I can turn it on and off using synclient TouchpadOff=0 and synclient TouchpadOff=1 respectively, and synclient properly reports the status thereafter.
In a text console, showkey -s: 0x74 0xf4 xev reports on pressing Fn F3: KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root 0xab, subw 0x3000002, time 3489713, (44,47), root:(672,258), state 0x0, keycode 199 (keysym 0x1008ffa9, XF86TouchpadToggle), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root 0xab, subw 0x3000002, time 3489713, (44,47), root:(672,258), state 0x0, keycode 199 (keysym 0x1008ffa9, XF86TouchpadToggle), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False I note that this reports the name XF86TouchpadToggle, yet it does nothing detectable. I suspect that something has blocked or changed the function. I wonder if anybody has ideas on what might be broken. Alternatively a script could capture the keypress and do the switching. (I found such a script on the web.) I would prefer to fix what is broken just for the satisfaction. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug