Touchpad click always reenabled after computer comes back from Sleep

[Daniel]

I don't like the feature that allows me to use my touchpad taps as a mouse button click, so I always disable it.

 However, when my Inspiron 1525 comes back from Sleep (which I trigger by closing/opening the laptop lid), the "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" feature is always On. Going to System|Preferences|Mouse|Touchpad incorrectly shows that the feature is disabled - it is ENABLED. Clicking twice on the checkbox in question will then fix the problem, but it's an annoyance. In practice, I have to do this every time my computer comes back from Sleep.

Please note that on boot, the feature is correctly disabled. This only happens after a Sleep cycle.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[RobertGilbert (robert.gilbert)]

Operating System: Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit

Installation Type: Clean Install, Updated to current as of 1/19/09 2000 EDT
Repositories Enabled: Proposed repository enabled. As well as all of the other default repositories, OpenOffice PPA, Wine and VirtualBox

Bluetooth H/W: D-Link DBT-120 B4
Bluetooth H/W: Microsoft Bluetooth desktop USB adapter
Mouse H/W: Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse Model A1197
Mouse H/W: Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth
Mouse H/W: Apple Wired Mighty Mouse Model A1152
Mouse H/W: Logitech V270 Bluetooth Mouse
Mouse H/W: Internal Dell Synaptics touchpad

Issue:
     When adding or removing another mouse, the "Enable Tapping" in gsynaptics becomes checked again. This occurs whenever any mouse, bluetooth or wired becomes available to the system.

Solution:
     None.

Status:
     Regression from Ubuntu 7.04. Tapping was successfully disabled in 7.04 using the synaptics entry in xorg.conf and adding SHMConfig True. Gsynaptics was then able to run and Enable Tapping was able to be unchecked. This setting was respected with other mice being added/removed from system. This system is a laptop and mice are added when sitting at a desk. This occurred frequently and therefore would have been noticed in the 7.04 installation.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install 8.10 clean.
2. Enable SHMConfig in xorg.conf by adding a touchpad device entry
Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
 Driver "synaptics"
 Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
 Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
 Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
 Option "SHMConfig" "true"
 Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
 Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
3. Restart X
4. Login and start gsynaptics
5. Disable "Enable Tapping"
6. Tap on touchpad to ensure tapping was disabled -> passed
7. Attach USB Wired Mighty Mouse
8. Tap on touchpad to see current behavior -> Tapping is enabled again.

Attempted Fixes:
1. Modify xorg.conf to add Option "MaxTapTime" "0", Restart X
Result: Same result, tapping was enabled again after Mighty Mouse was Attached.
2. Pair Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse
Result: Same result.

Steps Not Attempted:
1. None
Reason: Could not find any other solution.