Bug 546997

Summary: synaptics tapping turning itself off on gnome
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Bernhard Wiedemann <novellbmw>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: ousia, vuntz
Version: Milestone 8   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Other   
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Description Bernhard Wiedemann 2009-10-14 19:40:21 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-1.3 Firefox/3.5.3

This is probably the same issue as discussed in http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1221888.html

When I tried to enable tapping with gsynaptics, it went off again on every reboot.

workaround: run gconf-editor and change /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/tap_to_click


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install 11.2-MS8 openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0308-i686.iso
2. tap finger on AlpsPS/2 touchpad

Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
tap should cause a click
Comment 1 Bernhard Wiedemann 2009-10-14 19:45:20 UTC 
Ah, just found out that this can be set via gnome-control-center / Mouse GUI
so not a real bug.

Only leaves me wondering about the gsynaptics tool not working as well.
Comment 2 Pablo Rodríguez 2009-12-05 21:49:53 UTC 
*** Bug 561157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2010-01-21 15:35:55 UTC 
Yeah, this is not a real bug. The setting at the beginning of the session is set by GNOME itself, so gsynaptics settings are lost during login, I guess. It's an integration issue of gsynaptics in GNOME -- and since gsynaptics is not really developed anymore, closing.

(we keep gsynaptics for other desktops like XFCE or LXDE that might not have anything else to control this setting).