Starting with gnome-2.27 the settings of my synaptics touchpad have changed even if I didn't do anything. E.g. I had both edge scrolling and two-finger scrolling enabled, two-fingers-tap emulating the middle click, and so on; now I can have edge scrolling or two-finger scrolling, but not both; two-fingers-tap emulates the right click... Part of the new settings can be seen/set in the "touchpad" tab inside Sistem -> Preferences -> Mouse Preferences, http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-Mouse_Preferences.png If I run `hal-find-by-capability --capability input.touchpad` I get '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX3_port_logicaldev_input'. Running `hal-device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX3_port_logicaldev_input` returns udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX3_port_logicaldev_input' input.x11_options.FingerHigh = '30' (string) input.x11_options.VertScrollDelta = '100' (string) input.x11_options.MinSpeed = '0.09' (string) input.x11_options.MaxSpeed = '0.48' (string) input.x11_options.AccelFactor = '0.15' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int) linux.subsystem = 'input' (string) input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll = 'true' (string) input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll = 'true' (string) info.capabilities = { 'input', 'input.touchpad' } (string list) info.category = 'input' (string) input.device = '/dev/input/event8' (string) input.product = 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' (string) input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll = 'true' (string) info.subsystem = 'input' (string) input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX3_port' (string) info.product = 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX3_port_logicaldev_input' (string) input.x11_driver = 'synaptics' (string) linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event8' (string) input.x11_options.SHMConfig = 'true' (string) input.x11_options.TapButton1 = '1' (string) input.x11_options.TapButton2 = '2' (string) input.x11_options.TapButton3 = '3' (string) input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons = 'yes' (string) input.x11_options.LockedDrags = '0' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input8/event8' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX3_port' (string) input.x11_options.MaxTapMove = '220' (string) input.x11_options.PalmDetect = 'yes' (string) input.x11_options.LeftEdge = '1900' (string) input.x11_options.RightEdge = '5000' (string) input.x11_options.TopEdge = '1700' (string) input.x11_options.BottomEdge = '4200' (string) input.x11_options.FingerLow = '25' (string) input.x11_options.MaxTapTime = '180' (string) input.x11_options.CoastingSpeed = '20' (string) These are the options I set inside /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi But if I run `synclient -l` I get Parameter settings: LeftEdge = 1900 RightEdge = 5000 TopEdge = 1700 BottomEdge = 4200 FingerLow = 25 FingerHigh = 30 FingerPress = 255 MaxTapTime = 180 MaxTapMove = 220 MaxDoubleTapTime = 180 SingleTapTimeout = 180 ClickTime = 100 FastTaps = 0 EmulateMidButtonTime = 75 EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 280 EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7 VertScrollDelta = 100 HorizScrollDelta = 100 VertEdgeScroll = 1 HorizEdgeScroll = 0 CornerCoasting = 0 VertTwoFingerScroll = 0 HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0 MinSpeed = 0.09 MaxSpeed = 0.48 AccelFactor = 0.15 TrackstickSpeed = 40 EdgeMotionMinZ = 29 EdgeMotionMaxZ = 159 EdgeMotionMinSpeed = 1 EdgeMotionMaxSpeed = 401 EdgeMotionUseAlways = 0 UpDownScrolling = 1 LeftRightScrolling = 1 UpDownScrollRepeat = 1 LeftRightScrollRepeat = 1 ScrollButtonRepeat = 100 TouchpadOff = 0 GuestMouseOff = 0 LockedDrags = 0 LockedDragTimeout = 5000 RTCornerButton = 0 RBCornerButton = 0 LTCornerButton = 0 LBCornerButton = 0 TapButton1 = 1 TapButton2 = 3 TapButton3 = 2 ClickFinger1 = 1 ClickFinger2 = 1 ClickFinger3 = 1 CircularScrolling = 0 CircScrollDelta = 0.1 CircScrollTrigger = 0 CircularPad = 0 PalmDetect = 1 PalmMinWidth = 10 PalmMinZ = 199 CoastingSpeed = 20 PressureMotionMinZ = 29 PressureMotionMaxZ = 159 PressureMotionMinFactor = 1 PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1 GrabEventDevice = 1 Among the options, I'd like to point out that while hal defines input.x11_options.TapButton1 = '1' (string) input.x11_options.TapButton2 = '2' (string) input.x11_options.TapButton3 = '3' (string) synclient shows TapButton1 = 1 TapButton2 = 3 TapButton3 = 2 This is clearly wrong, I've never specified the behaviour as shown by synclient, and I don't know how to revert to the old one without disabling SHMConfig. With gnome-2.26 I didn't have this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I've been suggested to compile gnome-control-center with the hal USE flag disabled, but the problem persists.
Experience the same problem since 2.28 upgrade. This is pretty annoying as I can't do right clicks anymore if it overwrites hal settings. There is a good chance upstream doesn't care about hal settings since they are trying to replace it with udev, but they could at least not overwrite already set values by default in the session. This deserve an upstream bug report if it doesn't exist yet.
Someone already opened it, you can find it here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598820 I already posted a link to this page. Other ones similar are these: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578444 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591696
*** Bug 291819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 215496 [details, diff] Adds tap-to-click button settings, with gconf schema update Yuri Khan posted this patch on gnome bugzilla. I modified gnome-settings-daemon ebuild and it works. It's not the complete solution to the problem since it doesn't get back hal settings, but at least now it's possible to use two-finger-tapping for the middle click and three-finger-tapping for the right one.
I've discovered something related. On one of my laptops, tap-to-click stopped working in Gnome (but worked in login screen). Tapping in System->Preferences->Touchpad was switched on. The tapping started working after I swithed it on in System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad. This is, at the very least, confusing. The touchpad settings must be only in one place.
I think you have gsynaptics installed, and that provides the System->Preferences->Touchpad menu entry; it is deprecated and should be uninstalled.
This issue is now documented in the tentative migration guide [1]. Closing wontfix since there is nothing we will do to maintain hal compatibility here. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.28-upgrade.xml
