Bug#564211: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Lost scrolling with synaptics touchpad after upgrade
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 20:10 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I just want to add that the right place for this setting is the “Mouse”
> settings in the Systems → Settings menu (at least if I correctly
> translated the names back).
Thanks.
I did find that, and once I did it became clear what had happened.
Gnome has evidently added a new set of Touch Pad settings to their
control panel, and these settings default to off. Thus when I did an
apt-get upgrade many Touch Pad features got turned off for no apparent
reason.
Its probably too late now, but in retrospect I should have raised a bug
on Gnome. The correct thing to do when it is installed is construct the
initial settings so they preserve the current environment. Then when
you install or upgrade Gnome, your mouse works as it did before.
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