Bug 1225629 - mate-control-center lacks the touchpad configuration tab
Summary: mate-control-center lacks the touchpad configuration tab
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mate-control-center
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Mashal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-27 20:23 UTC by Alexander Ploumistos
Modified: 2015-06-09 15:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mate-desktop-1.10.0-5.fc22
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-09 15:07:41 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Alexander Ploumistos 2015-05-27 20:23:50 UTC
MATE's control center (mate-control-center-1.10.0-1.fc22.x86_64) no longer shows the "Touchpad" tab under the "Mouse" section. What's more, even though my previous settings (e.g. tap-to-click) were retained during the upgrade to f22 (I checked in dconf-editor), they have no effect. I have to manually enable tap-to-click via xinput at each session, i.e.

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1

This is on a Lenovo g50-30 laptop with an Elantech touchpad and the system is using the libinput driver.

I also noticed that I had Wayland running on tty1 (started by gdm) and Xorg with the mate session on tty2. Wolfgang Ulbrich suggested I investigate if that was causing trouble, so I rebooted to runlevel 3, started MATE, and the problem was still there.

(On an interesting side note, when using graphical.target as the default, if I kill wayland, when gdm restarts it, I can spawn another Xorg instance by logging in and I end up with two separate Xorg sessions with MATE, plus gdm running on Wayland. I haven't tried exhausting the available ttys...)

Comment 1 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-05-27 23:32:51 UTC
Does the issue exists if you **don't use** gdm as display-manager.
Please try out lightdm.

Comment 2 Alexander Ploumistos 2015-05-27 23:44:38 UTC
Yes, I got rid of gdm, set up a simple xinitrc file for mate (just with "exec mate-session") and then I went into graphical mode with startx. I made sure that no instances of gdm or wayland were running before and after starting X.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-05-27 23:49:56 UTC
and no touchpad configuration tab without gdm/x-wayland-server?

Comment 4 Alexander Ploumistos 2015-05-28 00:01:47 UTC
Nope. I just checked again, it's the same in both cases. No touchpad tab, no tap-to-click.

Comment 5 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-05-28 09:02:46 UTC
Ok, so it's not prob with running 2 X-servers or gdm.
I updated my laptop (msi700fx) to f22 today and i have touchpad tap and i can enable the 'tab-to-click' function, also 2 fingers scrolling is working.
Lightdm is the display-manager.
So, it's not a general problem to detect touchpads by mate-mouse-properties.
With f21 on the same notebook everthing was  working?
Can you do a 'dnf groupinstall mate-desktop' again, to be shure that no mate package is missing?
Can you try another livecd to see if other desktops have this prob, maybe there is a hardware regression with f22?
If it's work there, it should be working during a running live session.

Comment 6 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-05-28 09:14:00 UTC
I forgot to say, here the libinput driver isn't installed.

Comment 7 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-05-28 09:20:49 UTC
Alex, i got it.
If i intall libinput + xorg-x11-drv-libinput the touchpad tab is gone.
Can you uninstall both?
Where can i send the bill?  :)

Comment 8 Wolfgang Ulbrich 2015-05-28 09:36:42 UTC
Can post the output for 'synclient' if libinput is installed?

Comment 9 Alexander Ploumistos 2015-05-28 10:30:16 UTC
(In reply to Wolfgang Ulbrich from comment #5)
> With f21 on the same notebook everthing was  working?

Input-wise, yes. I had performed a clean install of f21 workstation.

> Can you do a 'dnf groupinstall mate-desktop' again, to be shure that no mate
> package is missing?

I will in a few hours, when I get home. In f21 I had the mate-desktop-extra packages from your repository, will you be making another one for f22?

> Can you try another livecd to see if other desktops have this prob, maybe
> there is a hardware regression with f22?

If I log into Gnome, my settings work. I didn't think to check if Gnome runs on Wayland or Xorg, will do when I get home.

> If i intall libinput + xorg-x11-drv-libinput the touchpad tab is gone.
> Can you uninstall both?

Shouldn't we all be learning to live with libinput as the default input driver from here on?

> Where can i send the bill?  :)

Sonnemannstrasse 22, 60314 Frankfurt am Main. Make it to "Mr. Mario".

> Can post the output for 'synclient' if libinput is installed?

As soon as I return home.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-05-28 14:16:29 UTC
mate-desktop-1.10.0-4.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mate-desktop-1.10.0-4.fc22

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-05-30 15:49:03 UTC
Package mate-desktop-1.10.0-4.fc22:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing mate-desktop-1.10.0-4.fc22'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-9145/mate-desktop-1.10.0-4.fc22
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-06-01 17:07:12 UTC
Package mate-desktop-1.10.0-5.fc22:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing mate-desktop-1.10.0-5.fc22'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-9145/mate-desktop-1.10.0-5.fc22
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2015-06-09 15:07:41 UTC
mate-desktop-1.10.0-5.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.