Bug#552271: tapping and two-finger scrolling have stopped working

[Nicolas STRANSKY <Nico@stransky.cx>]

Thanks a lot, this was indeed the reason why I lost these settings! I
realized that since gsynaptics was also installed on my system, I had a
"Touchpad" item in the Preferences menu, and because of that I didn't
look at the GNOME Mouse menu. Thanks a lot for your help. I wonder if
this is expected behavior that GNOME overrides the settings from
xorg.conf but it is indeed what happened.

Nico


On 10/28/2009 11:42 PM, EspeonEefi wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Severity: normal
> 
> I just looked into loss of synaptics custom configuration myself, and I
> think I may have found the reason. Are you by any chance running GNOME?
> gnome-settings-daemon 2.28, which was first introduced into unstable on
> October 22, adds a new Touchpad tab to the Mouse preferences dialog.
> That tab allows you to set whether to "Enable mouse clicks with
> touchpad" (default to off), whether to set "Scrolling" to "Disabled",
> "Edge scrolling", or "Two-finger scrolling" (default to "Edge
> scrolling"), and whether to "Enable horizontal scrolling" (default to
> off). It looks like gnome-settings-daemon is using those settings and
> clobbering any settings you might have set through HAL or xorg.conf.
> 
> If that is indeed the reason for your problem, then the question is
> whether this is a bug with gnome-settings-daemon, that it clobbers these
> settings.

-- 
Nico