Description of problem: After upgrading my wife's laptop (via preupgrade) it appears all mouse/touchpad settings are ignored (scrolling method, touchpad clicking, etc) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login 2. Change settings 3. Actual results: Settings are not respected. Expected results: Settings are respected. Additional info: I'm not sure if it matters but due to an On Snap! issue I have already moved ~/.gnome2 so it could be recreated.
Reassigning to the correct component
I'm not sure what update fixed it but side scrolling and touchpad clicking are now working as expected.
The problem seems to be that gnome-settings-daemon was not starting (or failing to start). It happened again so this time I moved ~/.local to a backup and on re-login settings are working again.
It appears the problem was caused by gnome-settings-daemon either crashing or not starting. There was no error message that there was anything wrong, and no log text that jumped out at me in /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log which is the only place I found a reference to gnome-settings-daemon. I also grepped through both the current ~/.local and the backup I made that was causing the failure and I don't see anything obvious that would prevent gnome-settings-daemon from starting.
Unless someone has any interest and pursuing why gnome-settings-daemon was failing to start (or why there was no useful logging data) I'm going to close this bug rather than wait for EOL.
seeing gnome-settings-deamon in process list but still cant change movement speed/acceleration of touchpad cursor. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787380#c1 related or just a missing key? will try moving the .local
moving .local didnt seem to effect it but moving the .gnome2 and .gnome2_private seemed to help. thanks.
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Reporting similar issues on F18 here, when I change the speed setting of the mouse, the mouse does not actually go faster, and the setting is reverted to its former state when I leave and come back to the screen.
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