Steps to Reproduce: - install F-8 on a laptop with a synaptics touchpad - yum install gsynaptics (or add/remove sw for point and click users) - Preferences->Hardware->touchpad Actual results: An error that SHMConfig must be set to yes Expected results: A configuration dialog for my touchpad Additional info: Adding this single line: Option "SHMConfig" "yes" To the Synpatics InputDegvice section fixes this, I believe that system-config-display should do this by default.
We don't set this because the way it's implemented, *anyone* on the box can then change the configuration at any point. There was some work underway to rework synaptics to have a sane way of doing configuration that could be limited to the user actually using the X session, but I haven't heard any more about it in a while unfortunately :(