Settings for external keyboard and mouse are not persisted

[Steve Rydz]

The equipment I'm using is:
- Laptop: Dell XPS 13 9380
- Mouse: Anker AK-UBA 2.4G Wireless Vertical Ergonomic Optical Mouse
- Keyboard: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
- Ubuntu version: 20.04.1

I often use an external mouse and keyboard. I have the mouse set to natural scrolling and the speed set to full. For the keyboard I remap Caps Lock to Esc (using Tweaks 3.34.0).

What happens:

When I connect the keyboard and mouse to the exact same USB ports as before I expect the above settings to persist.

What should happen:

The mouse and keyboard settings should persist. If you go to the mouse and keyboard settings, it appears as though they have persisted but in order for those settings to work they need to be toggled off and on again.

Either the settings should actually persist or the mouse and keyboard settings should show the real applied settings, i.e. toggled off.

This bug was not present prior to Ubuntu 20.04

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1899206, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.