Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62607
mouse properties (acceleration/threshold) don't "stick"
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:35 EDT
Description of Problem: After settting acceleration in the mouse properties dialog, everything is fine. After restarting X, though, the settitngs seem not to "take" but if I open the control center, go into the "mouse" pane and press OK, my settings are reinstated. I'm suspecting this could in fact be a WindowMaker problem, as I am using that as my wm, but I do have the "don't set non-WindowMaker specific settings" box checked in WPrefs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [bill@marcus bill]$ rpm -q control-center WindowMaker control-center-1.4.0.1-25 WindowMaker-0.80.0-7 Additional information: I've had similar issues with e.g. keyboard auto-repeat settings in the past (fixed by running xset from the session manager after all the various properties -capplet things have run). Side note: could gnomecc be made to start with the menu tree collapsed? It's annoying on a small display to have to scroll down every time to get to the session manager stuff, especially using a touchpad on a laptop. Removing the sawfish submenu when it's not running would be a bonus ;o)
Are you using gnome-session? If so, does ~/.gnome/session contain several capplets run with the --init flag?
Interestingly, sometimes running "xset q" causes the settings to kick in ... I'll attach my session file in a sec. I've never changed anything directly in it except to remove stuff (xterm sessions left behind after a crash). Oh, and I once edited nautilus out of there. Don't like nautilus.
Created attachment 52944 [details] ~/.gnome/session
I normally log in by running "startx -- -dpi 100 -layout whatever", sometimes I use gdm. I havn't noticed any difference between the two, but I'll check. I've cured it temporarily by allowing WindowMaker to set the mouse acceleration.
Created attachment 52945 [details] session-manual
Created attachment 52946 [details] session-options
Created attachment 52947 [details] session-properties
So is gnome-session running? The thing is, if you choose the WindowMaker session in gdm, or switchdesk over to windowmaker, then gnome-session won't run so those --init things won't run and settings won't be set up.
Yes, I have "GNOME" session selected (as default) and then "WindowMaker" selected as window manager via the control panel. It works, mostly. Just problems with some settings; I got around the issue ages ago by running "xset r rate 250 30" from the session manager (I think I may not have reported that; I started doing that before I knew what Bugzilla looked like :o) My GNOME config has been recreated from scratch at least once installing 7.x, so I don't think it's a compatability issue ...
This *appears* to be fixed now, at least when I start X from the command line (with "startx").
The code is all totally different for gnome 2 in rawhide as well.