Touchpad's right click function disabled by default and cannot be changed in Settings; I have to use the gsettings command

[Seija K.]

Randomly, after I boot the PC, suddenly the right-click option becomes disabled, and I am forced to run "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method areas" to set it back.

This setting should not have changed in the first place, and it randomly happened after booting the PC a day after shutting it off.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-45.37~18.04.1-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 5 10:46:23 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-format' b"'12h'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-04 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20200203.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you add your 'journalctl' log after getting the issue?
Could you also report it upstream on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I'm pretty sure gnome-shell (or mutter) will never change this setting. So assigning to gnome-settings-daemon, though that might also be wrong.

FYI, there is a GUI to control it: Just install the gnome-tweaks package.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Though coincidentally I have been thinking this option really needs to be in Settings. It's the only reason I install gnome-tweaks myself.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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