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! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
