Impossible to change synaptics touchpad settings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg
On upgrading to Intrepid, I can't find any way to change synaptics touchpad settings. I think it's crucial to make it easy for people to adjust these settings, as many people use laptops and a badly adjusted touchpad makes for a terrible computing experience.
When I initially tried to change the settings using a synclient bash script I had been using in Hardy, I got the error message that SHMConfig needed to be set to "true" in xorg.conf. I got the same error message when I tried to use the "Touchpad" dialog under the Preferences menu. I created a /etc/hal/
I read some how-tos saying that this system had changed fundamentally with Intrepid and that other programs were now preferred to synclient, but all the solutions seem pretty arcane and don't seem to allow you to control many variables. Is there any plan to make a functional gui for this? Or at least to make it so that it doesn't take hours of research to get basic touchpad settings to work acceptably?
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01fe]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01fe]
Changed in xorg: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: intrepid |
Hi there.Thanks for reporting your bug. Your right x has been changed alot. I don't fully understand and cant be too helpful. I was just reading the release notes page, however, and read this paragraph.
"X.Org Input Devices xorg.conf) still has InputDevice entries for the mouse and keyboard, but they are ignored now because input-hotplug is used. The keyboard settings now come from /etc/default/ console- setup; to change them please use sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup. After that, HAL and X need to be restarted (e.g., by rebooting your system)."
The X.Org configuration file (/etc/X11/
They do say the console-setup file is for keyboard settings but the sentence before makes me wonder if mouse settings might go there to.
Can't help beyond that im afraid. good luck.