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Bug 594463 - "enable touchpad" setting has no effect
"enable touchpad" setting has no effect
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Mouse
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-08 08:03 UTC by Arky
Modified: 2009-10-05 00:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Arky 2009-09-08 08:03:20 UTC 
After a recent update and reboot, the "Enable touchpad" setting in System>>Preferences>>Mouse has no effect. The touchpad works even if that setting is enabled.
Comment 1 Jens Granseuer 2009-09-09 11:07:42 UTC 
I strongly suspect this is a Ubuntu issue.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2009-09-09 12:41:40 UTC 
how so? the code is the stock 2.27 upstream one, the issue could be an xorg one though
Comment 3 Jens Granseuer 2009-09-09 12:48:53 UTC 
"After update and reboot" makes me think of issues with the migration scripts Ubuntu has (and that have been the cause for several incorrectly upstreamed bugs already). Guilty unless proven innocent in this case...
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2009-09-09 15:57:51 UTC 
> issues with the migration scripts Ubuntu has 

could you give any detail or bug reference so those can be fixed which would benefit everybody there
Comment 5 Jens Granseuer 2009-09-10 07:38:53 UTC 
Bug 594463 is the first one I came across now.
Comment 6 Jens Granseuer 2009-09-10 07:39:20 UTC 
Er, that should have been bug 591992.
Comment 7 Sebastien Bacher 2009-09-10 09:10:11 UTC 
the left handed settings has been broken recently and it's due to http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-settings-daemon/patch/?id=a5c3c61908662f50ece15a3e890a0a3b493f6799, I just rebuilt without that change and it's working again, are you sure this bug is not due to this change too?
Comment 8 Jens Granseuer 2009-09-10 09:15:15 UTC 
No, I'm not sure at all. In fact, I have no idea. All I'm asking for is proper Ubuntu QA before upstreaming bugs, especially in areas like this where you have until recently been using home-brewed and/or custom-patched solutions.

Peter, can you comment on this, please?
Comment 9 Sebastien Bacher 2009-09-10 09:19:09 UTC 
the left handed issue is fixed in git http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=6a3bedfcb9be30b883a145d7e4ce83fd9cbc3e25, that might fix the other issues, usually ubuntu bug triagers do proper qa but sometime users go upstream directly too to report their issues and for the record the current ubuntu change is only a code ran once on upgrade to write values to the new keys and that should not create any distro specfic issue on use
Comment 10 Peter Hutterer 2009-10-05 00:09:45 UTC 
sorry, been a tad busy recently. Is this still an issue?

I've just looked at http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-control-center/tree/capplets/mouse/gnome-mouse-properties.ui and that doesn't even have a "Enable Touchpad" option. My F11 box doesn't have one either, so what am I missing here?