On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:34:22PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> it has been some time that GNOME 3.20 users have been unable to configure
> their touchpad[1] because:
> 1/ xserver-xorg-input-synaptics cherry-picked an upstream commit[2]
> that gives the priority to the synaptics driver to handle touchpads
> 2/ xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is always installed as a dependency
> of xserver-xorg-input-all
> 3/ gnome-control-center 3.20 uses libinput and no longer support synaptics
I'm using XFCE, and recently when an apt-get upgrade caused the X server
to use libinput instead of the synaptics driver, I had a very difficult
time getting my touchpad configured correctly, in the end causing me to
move back to the synaptics driver. There are several issues with moving
from synaptics to libinput:
1) The defaults are different. Depending on your touchpad, that might
make things better or worse. This will cause people to be taken by
surprise and then they will have to figure out how to configure it with
the new system.
2) Configuring your touchpad in a desktop environment independent way is
harder with libinput than with synclient. Although far from perfect, the
synclient tool is much easier to use than either xinput --set-prop or
editing the Xorg.conf file.
--
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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