On 12/29/2014 02:09 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
On 2014-12-29 13:26, Michael Butash wrote:
I have/had a weird issue like this using lmde with mate, where
recently my trackpad would stop working on me after about a minute
into using the desktop from lightdm login manager. I tried fiddling
with the trackpad settings, seemed something related to the desktop
is "turning it off", but I've no idea what, and see no dmesg/syslog
output occur when it does.
Something somewhere might be doing the equivalent of "synclient
TouchpadOff=1". Just running synclient should show you a whole bunch
of data about the touchpad settings. (I generally run that on my
laptop, as I have a Trackpoint, which means the touchpad is completely
superfluous.)
I seem to remember checking synclient, as I'd had to muck around with it
prior to work on sensitivity to those new bastard style touchpads built
for windoze. If kde annoys me, I'll check that again though, thanks Matt.
Quick fix was moving to kde, as cinnamon already proved far too buggy
for use, and apparently so is mate as that was the final straw. I
migrated from mate to kde on my desktop as well as mate provided all
sorts of new and not-so-interesting bugs there as well.
I do not know why so many desktop environments have become such piles
of useless junk in the last few years. At least the KDE people
learned from the problems with the 3.5->4.0 thing, and have not
repeated those silly blunders yet.
Agreed here, they all went to hell when they felt the need to emulate
osx with compositing against incessantly crappy gpu drivers. The only
way to make any desktop stable seems to be to disable the gpu. Cinnamon
would get this nasty flickering effect and scramble the desktop oddly
when unlocking the workstation, which seemed like a vsync issue at a
desktop level.
Bad enough fighting my amd card in the desktop with my mega display, now
the useless laptop gpu's are taxed just by trying to use a standard 2d
desktop thanks to intel simply putting them in the proc by default and
the desire to make wobbly windows ubiquitous. Ugh.
If only the gpu vendors would quit hiding their hardware secrets behind
crappy binary driver, the community would probably fix them just to
regain some sanity and move on. Intel should just do the world a favor
and stop making gpu's.
-mb
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