I was having what seems to be this problem on my Thinkpad W510 in 64-bit
Maverick. Seems anything I set in gpointing would be lost on
suspend/resume, including trackpoint scrolling, two-finger touchpad
scrolling (care of the new synaptics-dkms multitouch package from the
utouch PPA), and the "faster tapping" option. Sometimes the trackpoint
icon would show up twice in gpointing, sometimes not at all. Sometimes
the touchpad icon wouldn't show up. Sometimes resetting my desired
settings in gpointing would work, sometimes not. Often, I'd have to
reboot.

I think I've solved my problem. I disabled the mouse gnome settings
daemon in gconf-editor. In "apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/mouse/" I
cleared "active". Now all the gpointing settings (at least the ones that
I use) stick, even after suspend/resume. I tried this after reading
comments in bug # 308191 and bug # 463735.

Note that I don't have much of anything in my xorg.conf.d directory, and
I don't seem to have any HAL fdi files hanging around. So it seems that
gpointing-device-settings is now solely in control of my trackpoint and
synaptics touchpad settings, and gnome itself is no longer getting in
the way. I haven't tried running the normal gnome-mouse-properties app
since, and I don't really want to try it. Feeling superstitious...

In my estimation, this isn't really a bug in gpointing-device-settings,
but rather in gnome itself. Or perhaps gpointing should automatically
disable the mouse gnome settings daemon on install. Am I way off base?
Can someone confirm?

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  Settings of gpointing-device-settings are non-persistent

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