Hi, On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 11/07/16 16:34, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The best solution would be to have gnome-control-center handle properly > > synaptics-managed touchpads but I don't think that upstream developers are > > very open to that idea given that they have dropped the support on > > purpose. > > > > What do you think? > > We thought about backporting synaptics support back for Stretch, to give more > time to libinput to mature and to other DEs to add support for it. Not sure > how > much work that would be though.
Ok, let's try to convince upstream then, I filed this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768682 Feel free to expand if I forgot some important point. > The other good option I can think of is to make GNOME prefer libinput by > passing > some options to X through gdm. No idea how feasible that is. It would still break KDE or XFCE started by gdm then. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
