Bug#822486: xserver-xorg: Synaptic driver stopped working.
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 14:09:56 +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, mate needs to be updated to know about xf86-input-libinput
settings.
Cheers,
Julien
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