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Lumina Desktop Environment
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Disabling Synaptics touchpad renders UI ineffective #672

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Adding the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf renders the UI shell ineffective:

hw.psm.synaptics.touchpad_off=1

One can still interact with the shell i.e. click icons on the desktop or the Applications menu, and animations will fire as expected, but no processes, menus etc. ever get started.

Keyboard shortcuts still worked, so I was able to open a terminal and clear the line in /etc/sysctl.conf to revert the change on the next reboot. Before rebooting, I captured the dmesg in case if it is helpful.

dmesg.boot

beanpole135 commented 5 years ago

This is completely unrelated to Lumina, but rather your OS relationship/configuration with running X11.