> David Wright :
> To answer the question in the rant, "why the f* does this button
> exist": for the same reason that some people set a touchpad timeout
> each time a key is struck, to prevent the cursor careering around the
> screen when typing, thanks to the ball of the thumb rubbing the to
> Keith Bainbridge :
> Have you considered changing the bios so that the Fn keys need the Fn
> key to alter the screen and touchpad and for that matter sound
> settings etc accidently. It means the Fn keys will also function what
> was considered normally for decades.
Can't say I have... cons
On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, at 01:56, David Wright wrote:
> To answer the question in the rant, "why the f* does this button
> exist"...
A more fundamental issue can be that some machines have an
option in the BIOS that dictates whether keys (mostly but not
exclusively the F1-F12 ones) which have alter
On 6/7/24 16:39, Steinar Bang wrote:
Steinar Bang :
Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad
stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5.
At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I
figured something had gone
On Sat 06 Jul 2024 at 08:39:57 (+0200), Steinar Bang wrote:
> > Steinar Bang :
>
> > Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad
> > stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5.
>
> > At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last
> Steinar Bang :
> Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad
> stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5.
> At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I
> figured something had gone wrong during the time and a re
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