Comment 10 for bug 489830

Has anyone used this on Debian with absolutely no issues?

My understanding is that gpointing-device-settings has a plugin for gnome settings daemon

Interesting settings can be found with gconf-editor at /apps/gnome/peripherals . The priority for loading plugins is found at /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/pointing-device and also in the keys of other plugins.

It seems that gpointing-device-settings stores settings in a way that conflicts with gnome's regular configuration, ie. it uses different keys to store the same settings, or it stores a setting in a way that affects many other gnome-native settings. gpointing-device settings stores settings in /desktop/gnome/peripherals/SynPS@47@2@32@Synaptics@32@TouchPad , while gnome stores them at /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad . I suppose it becomes a little complicated with the trackpoint, since gnome probably sees it as just another mouse.

Maybe we should play with the priority of these gnome-settings-daemon plugins.