Comment 37 for bug 489830

I was having what seems to be this problem on my Thinkpad W510 in 64-bit Maverick. Seems anything I set in gpointing would be lost on suspend/resume, including trackpoint scrolling, two-finger touchpad scrolling (care of the new synaptics-dkms multitouch package from the utouch PPA), and the "faster tapping" option. Sometimes the trackpoint icon would show up twice in gpointing, sometimes not at all. Sometimes the touchpad icon wouldn't show up. Sometimes resetting my desired settings in gpointing would work, sometimes not. Often, I'd have to reboot.

I think I've solved my problem. I disabled the mouse gnome settings daemon in gconf-editor. In "apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/mouse/" I cleared "active". Now all the gpointing settings (at least the ones that I use) stick, even after suspend/resume. I tried this after reading comments in bug # 308191 and bug # 463735.

Note that I don't have much of anything in my xorg.conf.d directory, and I don't seem to have any HAL fdi files hanging around. So it seems that gpointing-device-settings is now solely in control of my trackpoint and synaptics touchpad settings, and gnome itself is no longer getting in the way. I haven't tried running the normal gnome-mouse-properties app since, and I don't really want to try it. Feeling superstitious...

In my estimation, this isn't really a bug in gpointing-device-settings, but rather in gnome itself. Or perhaps gpointing should automatically disable the mouse gnome settings daemon on install. Am I way off base? Can someone confirm?