I've found the workaround for the reported problem, published in the already quoted thread: https://github.com/lunaryorn/synaptiks/issues/27
below is the patch describinge changes needed in the /usr/share/pyshared/synaptiks/monitors/mouses.py file: # diff -C 3 mouses.py mouses.py~ *** mouses.py 2012-06-22 09:49:56.858908711 +0100 --- mouses.py~ 2012-01-10 21:49:38.000000000 +0000 *************** *** 74,81 **** # device. The parent represents the actual physical device. The name # may be decorated with quotation marks, which are removed for the sake # of a clean represenation ! #return cls(device['ID_SERIAL'], device.parent['NAME'].strip('"')) ! return cls(device.get('ID_SERIAL'), device.parent['NAME'].strip('"')) class MouseDevicesMonitor(QObject): """ --- 74,81 ---- # device. The parent represents the actual physical device. The name # may be decorated with quotation marks, which are removed for the sake # of a clean represenation ! return cls(device['ID_SERIAL'], device.parent['NAME'].strip('"')) ! class MouseDevicesMonitor(QObject): """ _______________________________________________ pkg-kde-extras mailing list pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-extras