On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 14:09:56 +0100, Steven Price wrote: > On 30 April 2016 at 18:06, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:09:17 +0100, Steven Price wrote: > > > The mouse configuration > > > (System->Preferences->Hardware->Mouse in Mate) doesn't have the touchpad > > > tab > > > like it used to. > > > > > > Is there now some other way of configuring the touchpad with the new > > > xserver- > > > xorg-input-libinput package? > > > > > There are some config options that can be set either through > > xorg.conf(5) or xinput(1), see libinput(4). > > Thanks, but this still seems like a regression. Previously I was able > to change the settings through the GUI in Mate (the touchpad tab in > 'Mouse' settings) and these settings are per-user. > > I don't currently have an xorg.conf (the defaults work fine for > everything else) and xinput is obviously only a temporary change. I'm > not sure which package is wrong here, but either Mate needs to be > updated to support the new libinput way of doing things, or > xorg-input-libinput needs to support the synaptics configuration > methods. For now I've just reverted xserver-xorg-input-all to allow me > to uninstall xorg-input-libinput which gets everything working as > expected. > Yes, mate needs to be updated to know about xf86-input-libinput settings.
Cheers, Julien
