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

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

reassign 552271 gnome-settings-daemon
retitle 552271 don't override xorg.conf/hal touchpad settings
found 552271 2.28.1-1
thanks

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:23:12AM -0400, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
...

> > 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.

I believe so, reassigning accordingly.

-- 
mattia
:wq!