MacBook TouchPad No Longer Working

[gristleizer]

Here's an odd issue I hope someone else may know how to resolve: I have Kubuntu 9.10 running on my MacBook 2,1 and just installed KCM Touchpad on the MacBook. Now, after "enabling" the touchpad within the utility, my touchpad no longer works. Actually, I should say that the touchpad works at the login screen up until KDE loads, but once KDE loads, touchpad use goes "BYE BYE". I get the feeling I need to hack the synaptic driver or something like that. If anyone knows what needs to be done to get the Apple Touchpad to play nice with KCM Touchpad and wouldn't mind posting the instructions on how to do it, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

[GreyGeek]

Re: MacBook TouchPad No Longer Working

If synclient is installed you can try this from a Konsole.

synclient touchpadoff=0

You could also create a script: togglepad.sh

#!/bin/bash
# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off

# get current state
SYNSTATE=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }')

# change to other state
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then
  synclient touchpadoff=1
elif [ $SYNSTATE = 1 ]; then
  synclient touchpadoff=0
else
  echo "Couldn't get touchpad status from synclient"
  exit 1
fi
exit 0

Mark it with the execute permission and have it run in KDE4 autostartup (systemsettings).