Created attachment 340473 [details] This patch will turn on tapping based on the gconf entry regarding this. Description of problem: Gsynaptics-init fails to turn on tapping for the touchpad even though it is set in the tapping gconf boolean key. Therefore one needs to start up the gsynaptics UI and manually turn on tapping again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.16 How reproducible: Open Gsynaptics and turn on tapping, then restart the X-Server(or just log out and back in), tapping will not be present in the new session even though the gconf value for tapping is true. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Gsynaptics and enable tapping. 2.Ensure gsynaptics-init is among the list of autostarted applications. 3.Restart the X-Server. Actual results: Tapping is disabled. Expected results: Tapping should be enabled. Additional info: I have created a patch that fixes this issue and enables/disables tapping based on the gconf key, however I am unable to setup multi-key tapping as there is no gconf key to support this and there is no such option in the gsynaptics UI, therefore I assumed that 1-finger tapping is used. Also I am confused as to the presence of the gconf key "tap_to_click" which seems to be for the same purpose(it's description certainly seems like it) except that it is not used.
Created attachment 340474 [details] This is the same as the old patch, except that the memory pointed to by gval is freed, which was overlooked by me. This new patch frees the memory pointed to by gval which was forgotten in the old patch.
There was another small issue that was present in the previous patch where I did not set the defaults for the 2 and 3 finger tap events since I had misunderstood their actions, I have put this in the new patch. However there is one more issue where tapping is lost after a certain event/period of time, I am unsure if this is related or not.
Created attachment 340537 [details] This patch addresses the along issue along with providing more defaults. This patch addresses the issues addresses by the previous patch, and an additional one where more defaults had to be set properly.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I think bug 505752 is a dup of this. In any case, tapping is also not preserved across suspend/resume.
I don't think this bug is worth looking at any more since it would seem that gsynaptics is not being maintained now, but I may be wrong. At Matthew:- Did you try setting the touchpad settings through gnome-mouse-properties? Peter Hutterer has added touchpad support to it and that works much better than gsynaptics does, albeit I still am missing tap to click on the start of GDM but that's another issue.
Ah, OK. Setting tapping via gnome-mouse-settings seems to hold across suspend/resume and reboot. It's not quite as featureful as gsynaptics yet, though. (But I haven't been using the other features up to this point.)
Bug closed as gsynaptics is no longer maintained.
Shouldn't gsynaptics be removed from the distribution if it's deprecated? It's silly having all these folks trying to use a tool which doesn't work and apparently never will.