Bug 84796

Summary:	syndaemon doesn't work
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Ondrej Holy <oholy>
Component:	Input/synaptics	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	bugzilla, peter.hutterer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Ondrej Holy 2014-10-08 09:29:39 UTC

"syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R" is running, however tapping and scrolling isn't disabled.

Some info from irc chat with Peter:
Restarting daemon fixes the problem. It could be triggered by -t flag.

Also see bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691281

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2014-10-29 10:12:37 UTC

checked this again and it works as expected here on 1.7.6, the same version the reporter in the GNOME bug has. Unfortunately, reporter has moved to a different desktop environment and cannot seem to reproduce the issue there.

Comment 2 Valent Turkovic 2014-12-04 18:07:19 UTC

I'm having this issue with Lenovo Thinkpad T440s, latest Fedora 21 with all
updates applied.

What info can I share with you in order to figure out what is causing this bug?

Comment 3 Valent Turkovic 2014-12-04 18:14:30 UTC

$ sudo ps aux|grep synd
valent   13564  0.0  0.0  23368  2568 ?        S    19:09   0:00 syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R
valent   13593  0.0  0.0 112996  2484 pts/0    S+   19:10   0:00 grep --color=auto synd
valent@frajer src$ 

And tapping isn't workign, but moving the cursor and clicking (pressing the touchpad on new Lonovo 2013 models is equal to button press because there are no more dedicated buttons)

if I kill that process and run "syndaemon -i 1.0 -K -R" then curson is not being moved while typing.

Comment 4 Peter Hutterer 2014-12-04 21:13:48 UTC

right, the difference here is the -t flag though. so afaict syndaemon behaves correctly, don't you agree?

Comment 5 Valent Turkovic 2014-12-06 17:44:59 UTC

I agree, synaptic daemon works correctly but who ever thought these are sane defaults is very, very wrong.

Comment 6 Peter Hutterer 2014-12-07 22:48:04 UTC

re-closing. fwiw, things change over time and defaults that make sense at some point may not in the future. No need to assume malice here.

specifically: you have a T440 where it's very likely to accidentally touch the touchpad and move the pointer. That's different to previous smaller touchpads so the default now just doesn't work as originally intended.

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