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--- doc:appunti:linux:sa:touchpad_disable [2021/05/12 18:07] – [Mapping Fn+ESC on the Teclast F6] niccolo
+++ doc:appunti:linux:sa:touchpad_disable [2021/05/13 09:42] (current) – [Mapping Fn+ESC on the Teclast F6] niccolo
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 ===== Mapping Fn+ESC on the Teclast F6 =====
-The ESC key on the Teclast F6 notebook has the blue label indicating the touchpadd toggle function, but it does not work in GNU/Linux.
+The ESC key on the **Teclast F6 notebook** has the blue label indicating that the shortcut **Fn+ESC** should trigger the **touchpad toggle** function, but it does not work in GNU/Linux.
 Using the **evtest** tool we can see that the Fn+ESC keys produces three events, i.e. it is the same as pressing three keys together:
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-The keys are **Left Control**, **Left Meta** and the key used to toggle from Zenkaku (full-width) to Hankaku (half-width) Japanese character spacing :-O
+The keys are **Left Control**, **Left Meta** (also known as //Left Windows Logo// key) and the key used to toggle from Zenkaku (full-width) to Hankaku (half-width) Japanese character spacing :-O
-Using **udev** I remapped the ''Left Meta'' and ''ZENKAKUHANKAKU'' keys to the more useable **Left Alt** and **ESC** (see this page about **[[remap_keyboard_keys#customize_events_using_udev|customize udev events]]**):
+Using **udev** I remapped the ''ZENKAKUHANKAKU'' key to the more useable **ESC** (see this page about **[[remap_keyboard_keys#customize_events_using_udev|customize udev events]]**):
 <file>
 evdev:atkbd:dmi:*
- KEYBOARD_KEY_db=leftalt
  KEYBOARD_KEY_76=esc
 </file>
-Finally, using the XFCE **Settings** => **Keyboard**, I associated the Ctrl+Alt+Escape keyboard shortcut to the following shell script:
+If you are interested, I have a more complete configuration file which I use also to swap the **Fn key** behaviour on function keys (I want them to work as first option, instead of multimedia buttons). See this page about **[[remap_keyboard_keys#configuration_example_for_the_teclast_f6_notebook|rempapping keyboard keys]]**.
+Finally, using the XFCE **Settings** => **Keyboard**, I associated the **Ctrl+Super+Escape** keyboard shortcut (where //Super// means //Left Windows Logo//) to the following shell script **/usr/local/bin/touchpad-toggle**:
 <code bash>
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 </code>
+**NOTICE**: I usually use the **Left Windows Logo** key as the **compose key**, to type international characters. Unfortunately the compose key cannot be used into an XFCE keyboard shortcut, so I changed my compose key to the **Menu key** (the one at the right of the space).
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