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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #868400
  2. Comment #81

Comment 81 for bug 868400

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: Synaptics touchpad stops working

Just to re-affirm
Here when the freeze occurs 'randomly' there are always 2 syndaemon instances but NO indication that lightdm is involved.
There are however 2 scenarios where lightdm is involved, but they are very limited. One is sometimes on a live session, the other is the very first login after a new install.
That can be seen here -

~$ ps aux |grep syndaemon |grep -v grep
lightdm 1366 0.0 0.0 3524 772 ? S 21:02 0:01 syndaemon -i 0.5 -K -R
doug 1503 0.0 0.0 3524 772 ? S 21:02 0:01 syndaemon -i 0.5 -K -R

This only happens on the first login on a new install and then never occurs again .

So 5+ weeks of having the option disabled in gnome-control-center - no occurrences

1+ week of having the option disabled in gnome-control-center but starting syndaemon directly from a Startup Application - no occurrences

This has been tested on both 11.10 & 12.04 A1