You make excellent points.
1) Going forward I believe the Gnome guys see anything that's not
libinput as unsupported. So we could log an enhancement request to get
them to add Xorg synaptics support (ie. tweak the same things as
'synclient' does). But they're likely to ignore that request. Still, I
think if someone could implement it based on the synclient code, they
might accept a patch.
2) This is certainly a problem and what we should be fixing (although I
haven't tested upgrades myself to verify). Let's make this bug about the
upgrade problem.
Thanks for persisting and figuring it out.
** Summary changed:
- touchpad disable while typing, disable tap-to-click don't work in 17.10
+ Touchpad settings don't work after upgrading to 17.10
(xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is still installed)
** Summary changed:
- Touchpad settings don't work after upgrading to 17.10
(xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is still installed)
+ Touchpad settings don't work after upgrading to 17.10 (because
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is still installed)
** Changed in: libinput (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: libinput
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: libinput (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Medium
** Changed in: libinput (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Medium
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Title:
Touchpad settings don't work after upgrading to 17.10 (because
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is still installed)
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in libinput package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Since upgrading to 17.10, my mouse pointer is repeatedly and
frequently getting moved against my will when I am typing on my laptop
keyboard (as opposed to external keyboard) because my hand brushes
against the touchpad or even just near its surface.
Furthermore, I don't want tap-to-click to be enabled. I want to
actually have to push down on the mousepad hard enough to click it to
generate a mouse button event. I can't figure out how to disable tap-
to-click in 17.10 either.
I did not have these problems _at all_ in 17.04.
I have the touchpad click method set to "Areas" and "Disable While
Typing" enabled in gnome-tweak-tool. This does not help.
I have these lines in the touchpad section of
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf as well:
Option "DisableWhileTyping" "true"
Option "PalmDetection" "true"
Option "Tapping" "false"
They don't help either.
This is a substantial regression in functionality from 17.04.
It appears to be a problem using both Wayland and Xorg.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Nov 17 21:28:05 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-19 (182 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-20 (28 days ago)
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