Mouse settings not affecting trackpoint in GNOME Flashback

[frederickf]

[Impact]

I recently updated my Thinkpad T430 laptop from 16.04 to 18.04. When using GNOME Flashback, the mouse settings have no affect on my Thinkpad Trackpoint. For example, adjusting Mouse Speed slider does not change the speed of my mouse pointer.

I originally opened a ticket in the GNOME Flashback project (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/issues/4) A fix has been created and the maintainer directed me to open a ticket here to get his fix into 18.04.

[Test Case]

On a Thinkpad T430 (possibly other Thinkpads?), log into Ubuntu 18.04 using GNOME Flashback. Navigate to the Mouse & Touchpad settings.

* Adjust the mouse slider to the left or right extreme and move the pointer using the Trackpoint.
* Enable/disable natural scrolling toggle and scroll a window.

[Regression Potential]

The maintainer's changes add some tests for the Trackpoint device and respond appropriately. This seems low risk to me, but although I am a developer, I don't have any experience with this kind of project so take this with a grain of salt :)

[Other Info]

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04

gnome-flashback:
  Installed: 3.28.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.28.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.0-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Let me know if you need any other info.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-flashback - 3.28.0-1ubuntu3

---------------
gnome-flashback (3.28.0-1ubuntu3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Backport upstream patch to apply mouse speed and natural scroll
    settings also to trackpoints (trackpoint-settings.diff; LP: #1790336).

 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Sun, 02 Sep 2018 09:36:22 +0300

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello frederickf, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-flashback into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-flashback/3.28.0-1ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[frederickf (ffeibel-u)]

Hi,

I enabled the proposed repo installed the updates including gnome-flashback 3.28.0-1ubuntu1.2. The issue is now resolved for me. I can adjust the speed of my thinkpad track point using the settings mouse speed slider

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-flashback - 3.28.0-1ubuntu1.2

---------------
gnome-flashback (3.28.0-1ubuntu1.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Backport upstream patch to apply mouse speed and natural scroll
    settings also to trackpoints (trackpoint-settings.diff; LP: #1790336).
  * Backport upstream patch to implement per-window input sources
    (per-window-input-sources.diff; LP: #1769838).
  * Bump required metacity version to 1:3.28.0-1ubuntu0.1.

 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:52:29 +0300

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-flashback has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.