Touchpad settings don't show up in GNOME

Touchpad settings don't show up in GNOME

[rennes]

Hello,
In GNOME the touchpad settings don't show up and the 'Tap to Click' 
function does not work on my laptop.

I found the following tickets regarding the problem:

1) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747956
2) https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00266.html

It looks like a conflict between xf86-input-synaptics and 
xf86-input-libinput.

Workaround,

I've removed xf86-input-synaptics from 'xorg' service and later I 
reconfigure:

'guix system -L /home/jin/guix/ reconfigure os-config-gnome.scm'

Works for now!, any idea how we can establish the order in which xorg 
service loads the driver?

Re: Touchpad settings don't show up in GNOME

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

rennes@openmailbox.org skribis:

> In GNOME the touchpad settings don't show up and the 'Tap to Click'
> function does not work on my laptop.
>
> I found the following tickets regarding the problem:
>
> 1) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747956
> 2) https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00266.html
>
> It looks like a conflict between xf86-input-synaptics and
> xf86-input-libinput.

If xf86-input-synaptics completely superseded by xf86-input-libinput
nowadays?

> Workaround,
>
> I've removed xf86-input-synaptics from 'xorg' service and later I
> reconfigure:
>
> 'guix system -L /home/jin/guix/ reconfigure os-config-gnome.scm'
>
> Works for now!, any idea how we can establish the order in which xorg
> service loads the driver?

Sure, see ‘xorg-configuration-file’ in (gnu services xorg).

HTH!

Ludo’.

Re: Touchpad settings don't show up in GNOME

[rennes]

Hello,

>> It looks like a conflict between xf86-input-synaptics and
>> xf86-input-libinput.
> 
> If xf86-input-synaptics completely superseded by xf86-input-libinput
> nowadays?
> 

A maintainer of GNOME control center mentions that synaptics has been 
removed from GNOME control center during the development of version 
3.20, "because the synaptics X driver isn't developed anymore".

GNOME control center discussion:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764257

Commit:
mouse: Drop unused synaptics capabilities check
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?id=6a86c7e957850b7122a7570abd81f250bc640fe7

I see that we have no report on this problem, I consider leaving the 
topic as informative.

Thanks Ludovic