Bug#822486: xserver-xorg: Synaptic driver stopped working.

[Steven Price <steven@ecrips.co.uk>]

On 30 April 2016 at 18:06, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:09:17 +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> > The mouse configuration
> > (System->Preferences->Hardware->Mouse in Mate) doesn't have the touchpad tab
> > like it used to.
> >
> > Is there now some other way of configuring the touchpad with the new xserver-
> > xorg-input-libinput package?
> >
> There are some config options that can be set either through
> xorg.conf(5) or xinput(1), see libinput(4).

Thanks, but this still seems like a regression. Previously I was able
to change the settings through the GUI in Mate (the touchpad tab in
'Mouse' settings) and these settings are per-user.

I don't currently have an xorg.conf (the defaults work fine for
everything else) and xinput is obviously only a temporary change. I'm
not sure which package is wrong here, but either Mate needs to be
updated to support the new libinput way of doing things, or
xorg-input-libinput needs to support the synaptics configuration
methods. For now I've just reverted xserver-xorg-input-all to allow me
to uninstall xorg-input-libinput which gets everything working as
expected.

Cheers,

Steve