This has now become quite easy here to cause unlike previously. Disable touchpad Reboot At the greeter screen where the touchpad is always active use it to login (move cursor & tap on > Upon login the the touchpad is now enabled.
Another scenario is at the greeter screen don't purposely use the touch pad but let the cursor be moved by one's palm. This also seems to cause it to be re-enabled. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283863 Title: disabling touchpad is not persistent Status in “unity-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Happens also with g-s-d Test case: On a laptop with a usb mouse connected disable touchpad in system settings > Mouse & Touchpad Keeping mouse always connected use as normal for a day or 2. At some point touchpad will become re-enabled Could be related to this - with external mouse connected disable touchpad, it will stop working. remove external mouse, touchpad is immediately re-enabled. Possibly during the course of normal use, restarts ect. it is 'sensed' that the mouse is not connected & touchpad -enabled is mistakenly restored? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140221.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-11.31-generic 3.13.3 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Feb 23 19:28:13 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-22 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140222) SourcePackage: unity-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/+bug/1283863/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
