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Linux Mint 20 on the thinkpad X240

Installation

Linux Mint cinnamon desktop ISO written to USB with Balena Etcher.

Boot using F12 key to select USB drive.

Touchpad post-suspend fix

The touchpad will fail to work (pointer + clicks) after resuming from sleep/suspend. Changing the grub boot configuration fixed this on my X240 and probably a lot of other models. Source

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

To GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=0"

Then sudo update-grub and restart.

Note: to temporarily fix after a restart, use sudo modprobe -r psmouse then sudo modprobe psmouse in terminal (untested).

2020-10-14 NB while this works for the touchpad, the application / Windows key no longer works after suspend.

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