Bug 141048 - No configuration options for Synaptics Touchpad
Summary: No configuration options for Synaptics Touchpad
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: SaX2 (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Marcus Schaefer
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Reported: 2005-12-26 23:47 UTC by S. Handgraaf
Modified: 2006-06-26 13:12 UTC (History)
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Description S. Handgraaf 2005-12-26 23:47:28 UTC 
SuSE Linux has no options in any gui hardware configuration tools like sax2 to configure Synaptics Touchpad mouse options.
Even the most basic configuration options are disabled. These basic options to enable/disable 3button emulation,activate mousewheel, are however enabled and do work.
Only by a manual edit of /etc/X11/xorg.conf it is possible to edit the Touchpad configuration. This undermines userfriendly configuration of SuSE, also since gui tools like sax2 can overwrite/undo the manual changes when configuring other devices with the gui tools.
Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2006-01-16 10:35:05 UTC 
We will discuss this in the X team. I think it is usefull to have at least
a minimal dialog for setting up the synaptics touchpad driver.
Comment 2 S. Handgraaf 2006-02-27 01:31:49 UTC 
The Synaptic Touchpads are part of most IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. Looks like a large user group can be happy with at least a minimal dialog.
Comment 3 S. Handgraaf 2006-03-12 01:49:26 UTC 
It seems not only usefull but also nessesary. Without the configuration file otherwise has to be edited manually, but it contains a big warning not to do so since sax generates it automatically. Any changes may be lost.
Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2006-04-12 13:10:58 UTC 
*** Bug 164747 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2006-05-31 10:02:39 UTC 
*** Bug 179966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2006-05-31 12:52:40 UTC 
*** Bug 179966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Marcus Schaefer 2006-06-26 13:12:35 UTC 
Talked to Stefan Seyfried about this issue. There is already a tool
which allows user specific configuration of the synapics touchpads.
The tool is named:
 
   ksynaptics
   synclient

the x11-input-synaptics package contains the tools