I have some trouble with my "synaptics touchpad"
The touchpad is one of those that use the psmouse kernel module (i.e. modprobe psmouse will get the pad to work [mouse moves] and modprobe -r psmouse unloads it and the mouse does not work anymore).
My problem is that in one (my main) user account the touchpad stopped working. But only in that user account, it is still working on the login screen and in other user accounts.
My question is where could be the user-account specific settings linked to the touchpad. It seems to me that there must be some settings that are linked to my account that cause the touchpad not to work anymore.
It is still shown in the output of xinput
user@box:~# xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
output from xinput list
user@mybox$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
I can get the mouse to work using this commands
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
The whole problem seems very odd to me since I thought the settings to mouse and X-server are more made "outside the user account settings".
I am happy for a hint where to find the "account specific touchpad settings"
I use 12.04 Ubuntu
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