Synaptics doesn't work with multiple users in Xorg.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug has been tested on two different laptop.
The first one was a 5 years old IBM laptop on Feisty with one synaptic touchpad and one built-in mouse.
The second was a Dell inspiron 9300 laptop on Gutsy with one synaptic touchpad and a USB wireless mouse.
When accessing the Desktop of an other user through " Change User ", touchpad will completely stop working.
Steps to reproduce the bugs are :
1. Have two mouses, one of these is a touchpad.
2. Open a session
3. Click the change user button to open another session without closing the actual session.
The synaptic touchpad isn't working anymore. You doesn't have to open another session but you can if you want, but the synaptic touchpad will NEVER works until you get back to the initial session where synaptic is already used. It's pretty bad on a laptop with two built-in mouses because the most used mouse always stop to work.
The Xorg logs shows "Synaptics DeviceOff called" when I change user session and "Synaptics DeviceOn called" when I get back to the initial user session ( the only way to get the synaptic to work again ).
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Thanks for your bug report, more information is needed.
The way you describe it it looks like a permission problem on your mouse devices.
1. Please attach your complete /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
2. Open a terminal and give the output of:
$ ls -l <device>
for each Option "Device" "<device>" in all InputDevice Sections of your xorg.conf.
3. And the output of:
$ id <username1>
$ id <username2>
where <username1> is the name of the user that can use both mouses, and <username2> is the name of the user that can't.