Bug#534333: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: syndaemon doesn't accept -s option

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

severity 534333 minor
tag 534333 fixed-upstream
kthxbye

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 13:43:41 -0400, Matt Wozniski wrote:

> Neither synclient nor syndaemon are able to change touchpad settings for
> me anymore, by default.  If I give synclient the -s flag to use SHM
> instead of whatever method is being tried by default, it begins working.
> Unfortunately, syndaemon doesn't accept the -s flag, though it is
> documented in the man page.  This is merely an oversight; the code for
> handling it is included but the getopt() call is missing "s" in the list
> of flags.  I've attached a patch to add it, as well as fixing
> a whitespace error on the "s" handling code.
> 
The SHM code has been removed upstream.  Configuration of the synaptics
driver now mostly happens through device properties.

Cheers,
Julien