Bug#825100: Bug#821352: Problems with ouse and touchpad settings (it was:Re: Bug#822081: gnome-control-center: Mouse settings have no effect since 3.20)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

merge 821352 822081 822372 825100
tags 821352 confirmed
thanks

On 06/06/16 03:04, Leandro Doctors wrote:
> Dear all.
> 
> (CC: to #823372, #821352 and #825100 since I believe all these bugs
> should be merged.)
> 
> I have the same problems (see attached screenshot), namely:
> 1) The mouse settings panel does not appear complete any more.
> 2) All customization (natural scrolling, primary button, touchpad's
> touch-twice-to-click...) is gone.
> 
> Contrary to other people, this bug did not manifest immediately after
> upgrading to GNOME 3.20 (something I did around ten days ago), but
> only around three days ago.
> 
> I am trying to generate the list of installed packages (reportbug is
> somehow malfunctioning). However, for your information I am using
> (mostly) testing. For now, enjoy my screenshot.

This is a known problem. The issue is that gnome dropped support for the
synaptics driver and can't configure it anymore. It only has support for the
libinput driver now.

However when both libinput and synaptics drivers are installed, the system will
use the synaptics one.

The temporary workaround is to uninstall the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
package. Or to use the synaptics driver and configure it through the command line.

Cheers,
Emilio