Bug#446212: gnome-control-center: Unable to set mouse acceleration (mouse acceleration is insane low)

[Patrick Schoenfeld]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> this looks like a problem with your GConf settings.

yeah, I would not wonder, because I had another problem which seems to be
caused by missing gconf defaults (see #435005).

> Can you change other settings on your desktop without problems?

Mosteley, yes. Except for appearance settings crashing (without my fix) and
this one, everything is working fine.

> Please show us the output of the following command:

schoenfeld at maggie ~ % export LANG=C
schoenfeld at maggie ~ % for source in xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
xml::$HOME/.gconf xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
xml::/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults xml::/var/lib/gconf/defaults; do gconftool
--config-source=$source --get
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration; done
No value set for `/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration'
0.20000000298023224
No value set for `/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration'
No value set for `/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration'
No value set for `/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration'

> Also, do you have sabayon or desktop-profiles installed, or did you have
> them installed in the past?

Not to my knowledge. Also not according to /var/log/dpkg*

Best Regards,

Patrick