[ubuntu-za] touchpad working: thanks

Fri Apr 13 11:50:52 UTC 2012

Hi Tom and Frans

Thanks for your advice. I found a link to download a touchpad indicator
which restored things.

Have a great weekend.

Leon

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> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:01:19 +0200
> From: Charl Wentzel <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za>
> To: jan at verslank.net,   Ubuntu South African Local Community
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> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Launcher icons
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> On 12/04/2012 00:02, Jan Greeff wrote:
> > Thanks Marius, that seems to have sorted it out, hopefully it will
> > stay that way or at least until I upgrade to 12.04.  The workspace
> > switcher was gradually working its way down until it disappeared from
> > the screen, taking the trash icon with it.
> I've had an issue once where a message window popped up.  It reserved
> itself a blank space in the Unity launcher with now icon.  I could see
> it because there was another icon below it and closing the windows made
> the "gap" disappear.  I've also had a window opening up as a tiny block
> (2mmx4mm) on the screen, making it impossible to see.
> Is it possible that some error condition existed on your machine that
> may have opened repeated windows combined with these bugs?  System
> Monitor would be useful in picking this up.
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> A bit far fetched, but check it out if it happens again.
>
> Charl
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> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:22:13 +0200
> From: Charl Wentzel <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za>
> To: jan at verslank.net, Ubuntu SA Local Community
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> On 12/04/2012 09:08, Jan Greeff wrote:
> > Charl, I think you are on the right track. There was what appeared to
> > be a memory of more than one invisible Libre Office writer icon,
> > because whenever I clicked on the blank space between the workspace
> > switcher and the other icons, a new Libre Office writer page would open.
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> > Jan
> Glad I could help.  Maybe a system update or even reinstall of Libre
> Office would do the trick if it happens again.
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> Charl
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> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:26:36 +0200
> From: Tom Bamford <tom at aims.ac.za>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Touchpad suddenly stopped working
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> On 12 April 2012 08:18, Leon Marincowitz <lmarincowitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > My touchpad suddenly stopped working.
> > It has never given problems before through Natty and now Oneiric. I've
> > always use a mouse but sometimes not, in the last few days it suddenly
> > stopped working.
> >
> > I've a 32 bit Oneiric on a Acer Aspire 5610z. It has a special option
> > (function key + F7) to usually disable/enable the touchpad. Now it does
> > this, that it show activation or deactivation in the top right (as when
> > songs play, or volume control), but nothing happens.
> >
> > Please help?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Leon
> >
>
> Hi Leon
>
> My Acer laptop has an Fn-Function Key combination that switches off
> the touchpad. The setting is persistent across reboots which makes it
> confusing to diagnose - I don't have the machine with me now but try
> something like Fn-F7/8/9.
>
> Regards
> Tom
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> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:43:34 +0200
> From: "frans" <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Touchpad suddenly stopped working
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> On 12/04/12 09:26, Tom Bamford wrote:
> > On 12 April 2012 08:18, Leon Marincowitz<lmarincowitz at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Dear All
> >>
> >> My touchpad suddenly stopped working.
> >> It has never given problems before through Natty and now Oneiric. I've
> >> always use a mouse but sometimes not, in the last few days it suddenly
> >> stopped working.
> >>
> >> I've a 32 bit Oneiric on a Acer Aspire 5610z. It has a special option
> >> (function key + F7) to usually disable/enable the touchpad. Now it does
> >> this, that it show activation or deactivation in the top right (as when
> >> songs play, or volume control), but nothing happens.
> >>
> >> Please help?
> >>
> >> Kind Regards
> >> Leon
> >>
> > Hi Leon
> >
> > My Acer laptop has an Fn-Function Key combination that switches off
> > the touchpad. The setting is persistent across reboots which makes it
> > confusing to diagnose - I don't have the machine with me now but try
> > something like Fn-F7/8/9.
> >
> > Regards
> > Tom
> >
> If you have recently updated your kernel it might also do that,
> (I think there are maybe some config setting that could get passed over
> on compiling), anyway upgrading to a more recent(3rd party compiled)
> kernel might work, also try booting with the previous kernel, I think
> you hold "shift" for the grub menu, and then choose to boot an previous
> kernel of your choice.
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> Frans de Waal
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