Bug 732566

Summary: enabling gnome services kills mouse settings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk>
Component: xfce4-settingsAssignee: Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dimitri Maziuk 2011-08-22 22:37:11 UTC 
Description of problem:

I'm using a left-handed mouse. After I enabled gnome services, logged out and back in again it was remapped to right-handed. The settings widget it would let me select the "left handed" radio button, but the mouse buttons weren't remapped. After closing and re-opening the widget, selection was back on "right handed". I could change the value in the settings editor, but that didn't affect the mouse either.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.el6.x86_64
xfce4-settings-4.8.2-2.el6.x86_64
Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2011-08-25 00:43:36 UTC 
Is there anything related in ~/.xsession-errors? 

Can you see if gnome-settings-daemon is running before xfconfd ?
(check pid and time).
Comment 2 Dimitri Maziuk 2011-08-25 01:27:32 UTC 
Created attachment 519744 [details]
xsession-errors
Comment 3 Dimitri Maziuk 2011-08-25 01:40:37 UTC 
Nothing caught my eye in .xsession-errors, take a look for yourself.

dmaziuk@yellowtail:~$ ps -aef | grep xfcon[fd]
dmaziuk  15475     1  0 20:22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
dmaziuk@yellowtail:~$ ps -aef | grep gnome-setting[s]
dmaziuk  15834     1  0 20:22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon

According to pids xfconfd was started first. (I don't remember: is there startup time in ticks hiding in /proc somewhere?)

BTW, this is after I went to Settings - Settings Manager - Session and Startup and enabled "Launch GNOME services on startup" on Advanced tab. Then logged out and back in again -- my mouse buttons are back to right-handed config.
Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2011-08-27 19:39:38 UTC 
If you run xfce4-mouse-settings directly from a terminal, do you get any output?
Comment 5 Kevin Fenzi 2011-08-27 19:45:03 UTC 
Sigh. Setting component back.
Comment 6 Dimitri Maziuk 2011-08-29 17:10:51 UTC 
(xfce4-mouse-settings is what I called "settings widget": I'm new to xfce)

It doesn't print any messages unfortunately. The behaviour is the same: with gnome services running, it comes up as right handed on login. I can select the "Left handed" radio button on both "Mac emulation" and my physical mouse, but that doesn't do anything. If I leave the tab and come back, radio button's back to "Right handed".
Comment 7 Kevin Fenzi 2011-09-04 20:59:52 UTC 
Is this a usb mouse? was it removed and readded between logins?
Comment 8 Dimitri Maziuk 2011-09-06 16:21:04 UTC 
Yes, it is a usb mouse (dell laser) plugged into a usb hub (built into the monitor -- also dell).
No, it was not removed and re-added.
Comment 9 Kevin Fenzi 2011-09-06 22:04:57 UTC 
Sorry for all the back and forth. Looks like this might be upstream bug: 
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5004

From the last comment there: 

First check if xfce4-settings-helper is running.

If you still have this problem, paste the output of "xinput list" and "xinput
get-button-map <id>", replace id with the device's id from the list.

I'd be happy to add this info for you, or let you do so. ;)
Comment 10 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-03-03 22:52:57 UTC 
xfce 4.8.x bug. Closing.