Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

Add support for unified Xorg input driver

Bug #1417980 reported by Timo Aaltonen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cinnamon-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
mate-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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mate-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
plasma-desktop (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned
unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

xserver-xorg-input-libinput driver will eventually replace current input drivers (evdev, synaptics at first, wacom later). This needs changes to the desktop configuration tools.

background info:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/XDC2014HuttererLibInput/xdc-2014.html
https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/libinput/attachments/slides/591/export/events/attachments/libinput/slides/591/libinput_xorg.pdf

Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
affects: libinput (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

GNOME 3.16 should be libinput-ready, so gnome-control-center 3.16 will fix this AIUI

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

kcm-touchpad support discussed here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184713

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how much difference does it make for users/maintainance? asked differently, is that something that would be a nice to have, or something that would be a real win and that we should look at for the coming lts?

tags: added: rls-w-incoming
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Fix Released
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

It should be much better for touchpads, and the plan would be to replace evdev/synaptics drivers, maybe wacom too, in wily+1. X would then share the same input bits (libinput) with Mir & Wayland.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

testing is really easy; just install xserver-xorg-input-libinput and re-login, you're using the driver then since the xorg.conf.d snippet is loaded last, so effectively overrides evdev and synaptics ones.

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote :

Seems to work just fine on my Macbook Pro 8,2 . KCM Touchpad seems to load but only a few options seem to work ( like scrolling ).

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
tags: added: rls-x-incoming
removed: rls-w-incoming
Will Cooke (willcooke)
tags: removed: rls-x-incoming
Will Cooke (willcooke)
tags: added: rls-y-incoming
no longer affects: kcm-touchpad (Ubuntu Xenial)
no longer affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial)
no longer affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial)
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Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote :

We had a discussion between Laney, Seb, Timo in #ubuntu-desktop. We can not be sure what effect this change will have on everyone, so we are not targeting for X because LTS. Instead this will (hopefully) happen early in the Y cycle.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Installing xserver-xorg-input-libinput is necessary to get Touchpad options to show in gnome-control-center 3.20.

Because of this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759595

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=66c211ff24be

Mentioning here because I assume we'd want to switch to libinput before doing that package upgrade or instead maybe we could just revert that change temporarily.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Never mind. Unity obviously uses unity-settings-daemon these days.

I believe Ubuntu GNOME will want to hard depend on libinput for yakkety so it would be good if unity-control-center could handle libinput too so that Touchpad Settings work well for those who use both GNOME and Unity.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

I guess it's fine for gnome/kde to depend on xserver-xorg-input-libinput until unity has gained support for it, at which point the driver will get pulled in by xserver-xorg-input-all

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

turns out KDE has supported this since over a year ago

affects: kcm-touchpad (Ubuntu Yakkety) → plasma-desktop (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Changed in plasma-desktop (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Fix Released
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

yakkety has g-c-c 3.20

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Fix Released
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in mate-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Won't Fix
no longer affects: cinnamon-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: cinnamon-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
no longer affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Z-series)
no longer affects: mate-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Z-series)
no longer affects: plasma-desktop (Ubuntu Yakkety)
no longer affects: plasma-desktop (Ubuntu Z-series)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

status on cinnamon

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-settings-daemon/issues/78

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

status on mate

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center/issues/133

no longer affects: cinnamon-control-center (Ubuntu Z-series)
no longer affects: cinnamon-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Z-series)
no longer affects: mate-control-center (Ubuntu Z-series)
no longer affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Z-series)
no longer affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Z-series)
Changed in cinnamon-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in mate-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Vlad Orlov (monsta) wrote :

Hi,

I've decided to make separate issue about mate-settings-daemon:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon/issues/160

Currently I'm working on backporting various stuff from gnome-settings-daemon to make it possible to apply libinput support from cinnamon-settings-daemon.

Changed in mate-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
MATE Desktop (mate-desktop)
Changed in mate-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in mate-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Vlad Orlov (monsta) wrote :

Ok, it's done in MATE 1.18.

Changed in mate-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in mate-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Pretty sure this is a wontfix for Unity by now.

Changed in cinnamon-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
no longer affects: cinnamon-control-center (Ubuntu)
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