Comment 12 for bug 489830

I'm using Debian's 1.5.1, but using gconf-editor to set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/pointing-device/priority to 8 and /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/mouse to 9 has allowed gpointing-device-settings to have precedence over gnome's default mouse settings app. Settings are now persistent.

I still haven't gotten XF86TouchpadToggle to work, i've tried setting /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/keybindings to 7, tried disabling the gpointing-device-settings plugin, and tried uninstalling libgpds and gpointing-device-settings. Nothing worked. I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain how the XF86TouchpadToggle binding works by default in Ubuntu Lucid.

Hopefully this solution is reproducible!