Description of problem: I'm using a left-handed mouse. After I enabled gnome services, logged out and back in again it was remapped to right-handed. The settings widget it would let me select the "left handed" radio button, but the mouse buttons weren't remapped. After closing and re-opening the widget, selection was back on "right handed". I could change the value in the settings editor, but that didn't affect the mouse either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.el6.x86_64 xfce4-settings-4.8.2-2.el6.x86_64
Is there anything related in ~/.xsession-errors? Can you see if gnome-settings-daemon is running before xfconfd ? (check pid and time).
Created attachment 519744 [details] xsession-errors
Nothing caught my eye in .xsession-errors, take a look for yourself. dmaziuk@yellowtail:~$ ps -aef | grep xfcon[fd] dmaziuk 15475 1 0 20:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd dmaziuk@yellowtail:~$ ps -aef | grep gnome-setting[s] dmaziuk 15834 1 0 20:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon According to pids xfconfd was started first. (I don't remember: is there startup time in ticks hiding in /proc somewhere?) BTW, this is after I went to Settings - Settings Manager - Session and Startup and enabled "Launch GNOME services on startup" on Advanced tab. Then logged out and back in again -- my mouse buttons are back to right-handed config.
If you run xfce4-mouse-settings directly from a terminal, do you get any output?
Sigh. Setting component back.
(xfce4-mouse-settings is what I called "settings widget": I'm new to xfce) It doesn't print any messages unfortunately. The behaviour is the same: with gnome services running, it comes up as right handed on login. I can select the "Left handed" radio button on both "Mac emulation" and my physical mouse, but that doesn't do anything. If I leave the tab and come back, radio button's back to "Right handed".
Is this a usb mouse? was it removed and readded between logins?
Yes, it is a usb mouse (dell laser) plugged into a usb hub (built into the monitor -- also dell). No, it was not removed and re-added.
Sorry for all the back and forth. Looks like this might be upstream bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5004 From the last comment there: First check if xfce4-settings-helper is running. If you still have this problem, paste the output of "xinput list" and "xinput get-button-map <id>", replace id with the device's id from the list. I'd be happy to add this info for you, or let you do so. ;)
xfce 4.8.x bug. Closing.