Bug#565205: xserver-xorg: tapping on touchpad cannot be saved
reassign 565205 xserver-xorg-core
severity 565205 normal
tag 565205 upstream fixed-upstream
kthxbye
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 21:35:32 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> on my EEEPC it is not possible, to save an activated tapping. Tapping is
> working, when I start gsynaptic, and activate it. But as soon as I leave KDE
> or any other windowmanager, this behavior disappeared again (in KDM tapping
> is gone again).
>
> As in new Xorg 7.5 there is no more xorg.conf, it might be set somewhere
> else. So I think, this is either a simple configuration problem (which can
> be easily solved by me) or it is a problem with xserver-xorg, which
> discovers at boot the hardware and is seting at that moment the
> configuration.
>
> However, please let me know, if I can help you!
>
So there's a few parts in this. One is there's no way at the moment to
set options for input devices in xorg.conf while taking advantage of
input hotplugging (it's still possible to create an xorg.conf with an
InputDevice section for your touchpad, it's just not straightforward).
That's getting fixed in xserver 1.8.
Another is that desktop environments are only slowly picking up these
things, and don't let you configure the behaviour of your input devices.
I don't know what's the status of that stuff in kde, but I think gnome
has something integrated with gnome-settings-daemon, so that's getting
better.
Cheers,
Julien
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