Ubuntu GNOME

touchpad settings not being honoured on X11

Bug #1552558 reported by Michael Gratton on 2016-03-03

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu GNOME	New	Undecided	Unassigned	Ubuntu GNOME xenial-ppa

Bug Description

After upgrading to Xenial and GNOME 3.19.x (from the gnome3-staging PPA), the touchpad settings in gnome-control-centre stopped being honoured. No change to the touchpad settings were reflected in the behaviour of the device.

This was under X11 using evdev and the synaptics device drivers. It was previously working fine under Wily and GNOME 3.18, and started working again once I removed the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and xserver-xorg-input-evdev packages, then installed xserver-xorg-input-libinput.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libmutter0h 3.19.90-0ubuntu1~xenial1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3-staging]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-8.23-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Mar 3 17:03:20 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-22 (225 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-02 (1 days ago)

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Michael Gratton (mjog) wrote on 2016-03-03:

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2016-03-03:

As mentioned on the email list, we need to switch to using libinput by default. I've not had a chance to look at this yet, so not sure what is required, but removing evdev/synaptics drivers is not a preferred solution since that will affect users that have multiple DE's they use.