Public bug reported:
I'm having issue with my touchpad on a Macbook 1,1. After much
investigation I've found there are at least these many places to tweak
the behaviour of my touchpad:
1. The default sytem settings mouse and touchpad tool.
2. The dconf-editor key /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/
3. The synclient tool
4. The syndaemon tool
5. The xinput tool
6. The gpointing-device-settings tool.
7. Editing files inside the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory
(As a side note, I haven't been able to properly configure my touchpad
after weeks of use and I'm about to just sell this old system with OS X
reinstalled and buy a second hand laptop with a Synaptics-branded
touchpad on it.)
Not only are there just too many places to tweak touchpad settings, but
there's no info available on which one takes precedence over the others,
which will persist between suspends and/or reboots, which brands of
touchpads support what options on each tweaking place, etc. etc. etc.
My proposed solution is having a single point for touchpad settings
which includes simple and advanced settings (on a separate
tab/menu/option) first and foremost. Even if nobody can stop a developer
from creating a new tweaking tool, Canonical/Ubuntu should encourage and
support the development of a single one that can handle the not so many
touchpad models in the market.
Another proposal I would like to make is to create a crowdsourced
database of laptops and its recommended default touchpad settings. That
database would be consulted by the Ubuntu installer and the single
tweaking tool would be filled with those values right from the
installation point.
Touchpad malfunction is probably one of the primary reasons why people
leave Ubuntu as "incompatible" with a particular laptop. Being it so
hard to tweak makes this even worse.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1 32bit, up to date.
** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: touchpad
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098388
Title:
Too many places to set up a touchpad
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm having issue with my touchpad on a Macbook 1,1. After much
investigation I've found there are at least these many places to tweak
the behaviour of my touchpad:
1. The default sytem settings mouse and touchpad tool.
2. The dconf-editor key /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/
3. The synclient tool
4. The syndaemon tool
5. The xinput tool
6. The gpointing-device-settings tool.
7. Editing files inside the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory
(As a side note, I haven't been able to properly configure my touchpad
after weeks of use and I'm about to just sell this old system with OS
X reinstalled and buy a second hand laptop with a Synaptics-branded
touchpad on it.)
Not only are there just too many places to tweak touchpad settings,
but there's no info available on which one takes precedence over the
others, which will persist between suspends and/or reboots, which
brands of touchpads support what options on each tweaking place, etc.
etc. etc.
My proposed solution is having a single point for touchpad settings
which includes simple and advanced settings (on a separate
tab/menu/option) first and foremost. Even if nobody can stop a
developer from creating a new tweaking tool, Canonical/Ubuntu should
encourage and support the development of a single one that can handle
the not so many touchpad models in the market.
Another proposal I would like to make is to create a crowdsourced
database of laptops and its recommended default touchpad settings.
That database would be consulted by the Ubuntu installer and the
single tweaking tool would be filled with those values right from the
installation point.
Touchpad malfunction is probably one of the primary reasons why people
leave Ubuntu as "incompatible" with a particular laptop. Being it so
hard to tweak makes this even worse.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1 32bit, up to date.
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