Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg
On upgrading to Intrepid, I can't find any way to change synaptics
touchpad settings. I think it's crucial to make it easy for people to
adjust these settings, as many people use laptops and a badly adjusted
touchpad makes for a terrible computing experience.
When I initially tried to change the settings using a synclient bash
script I had been using in Hardy, I got the error message that SHMConfig
needed to be set to "true" in xorg.conf. I got the same error message
when I tried to use the "Touchpad" dialog under the Preferences menu. I
created a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi file as was suggested in one
how-to, although this didn't seem to have any effect. Then I edited
xorg.conf and the error messages went away, but the Touchpad dialog and
synclient still have no effect. The only way I can find to influence
the touchpad speed is using the Mouse dialog, whose maximum speed is
painfully slow (and which only configures a couple variables).
I read some how-tos saying that this system had changed fundamentally
with Intrepid and that other programs were now preferred to synclient,
but all the solutions seem pretty arcane and don't seem to allow you to
control many variables. Is there any plan to make a functional gui for
this? Or at least to make it so that it doesn't take hours of research
to get basic touchpad settings to work acceptably?
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Impossible to change synaptics touchpad settings
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288332
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