touchpad click emulation and reverse scrolling settings ignored

[Новак Бошков]

I have my ~/.config/tourchpadrc properly set. However, these settings are ignored and my touchpad falls back to default settings, which is no emulated clicks and no inverse vertical scrolling.

$ cat ~/.config/touchpadrc
[parameters]
InvertVertScroll=true
Tapping=true

The worst part, after rebooting ~10 times, my touchpad works again. The last kernel I had and in which this did not use to happen was 5.4.0-81-generic.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: linux-image-5.4.0-84-generic 5.4.0-84.94~18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-84.94~18.04.1-generic 5.4.133
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-84-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Sep 14 18:45:27 2021
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+beaver-three-eyed-raven+X92+beaver-three-eyed-raven+X92.1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-15 (639 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38
SourcePackage: linux-signed-hwe-5.4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)