gpointing-device-settings lost on reboot

Question

I've been using gpointing-device-settings to enable both two-finger and edge scrolling on my trackpad, but it seems to not "remember" after reboot. The settings are still "ticked" in gpointing-device-settings but two-finger scrolling doesn't work until I uncheck and recheck the tickboxes for two-finger scrolling. How can I get Ubuntu to remember after reboot that I want both two-finger and edge scrolling without having to open gpointing-device-settings each time?

Solution 1

In dconf-editor you can edit the settings like this:

Go to org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/touchpad There you can select e.g. two finger scrolling instead of boarder scrolling, disable while typing, tap-to click and all the other nice usability-enhancing features.

Maybe it's not as nice as gpointing-device-settings, but if they are not able to keep their tool updated, just forget about it and use dconf-editor.

this seems to affect hundreds or thousands Linux Users from many distributions it seems. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpointing-device-settings/+bug/489830

Solution 2

Store your current settings:

synclient -l | sed 's/Parameter settings://;s/ //g' > ~/.synpadSettings

Recover them:

cat ~/.synpadSettings | xargs synclient

I'm sure there's a good place to put these as shutdown and startup scripts for the your X session.

Comments

[Jack Senechal]

Hallelujah thank you. This is been killing me for months.

[Anake]

This works on 14.04, good work, much better than the old way of switching to dconf-editor

[mudri]

You can use 1d;s/ //g rather than s/Parameter settings://;s/ //g, but this is the best answer. Thanks!