GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 776660
Mouse Settings do not show for TrackPoint
Last modified: 2017-01-09 16:43:24 UTC
The normal settings behavior is that the mouse settings appear / disappear whether a mouse is connected or disconnected. However on thinkpad laptops, the trackpoint is affected by mouse settings and not trackpad settings. The mouse settings do not show when no mouse is connected. If you connect a mouse and change the settings (ex. speed), the trackpoint is affected. Unplugging the mouse makes those settings unchangeable for the trackpoint now. Currently happening with Fedora 25. I have not tested other distributions.
Created attachment 342729 [details] [review] common: Handle trackpoint devices in GsdDeviceManagerX11 With gtk+ >= 3.22 trackpoints are classified separately from mice so we need to handle them here. In the future we might want to expose this further if we start adding trackpoint specific UI.
Review of attachment 342729 [details] [review]: Sure. Although a follow-up patch to remove the default: would make sure we handle all the possibilities and avoid problems in the near future.
Removed the default case so that we get a compile time warning in case this happens again. Attachment 342729 [details] pushed as 1e7631d - common: Handle trackpoint devices in GsdDeviceManagerX11