Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 212753
Synaptics touchpad parameters should be set sanely and changable on the fly
Last modified: 2007-12-13 18:30:36 EST
Description of problem: The Synaptics driver supports runtime configuration changes if the parameter Option "SHMConfig" "yes" is set in the InputDevice section of xorg.conf for that driver; there was no such setting in my xorg.conf after running system-config-display --reconfig. After setting that parameter, users can use e.g. gsynaptics to configure their touchpads to their liking. Unfortunately this is not done by system-config-display, so the per-user configuration utilities are completely useless by default. (The manpage for synaptics does warn that turning this on lets any local user change touchpad parameters, is this the reason why the feature is not turned on?) The defaults might need some work too. Perhaps e.g. the side scrolling should also be turned off by default: Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" since that seems to be the most potentially confusing behavior, and it interacts pretty badly with firefox - it's really easy to skip back and forth by mistake (cf. e.g. bug #187412). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-display-1.0.45-1 (fc6) How reproducible: Always
Created attachment 139679 [details] Add the "SHMConfig" option to the defaults for Synaptics touchpads Patch to default-enable configuration of Synaptics touchpads using e.g. gsynaptics.
Changing component to rhpxl, since that's where the actual settings for the touchpad are handled.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215157 ***