Comment 40 for bug 489830

I think the problem I was writing about was a suspend/resume problem. The gconf change fixed that for me. It seems some of us here are talking about a logout/login problem. The two might be different.

I've now noticed that after login, my touchpad speed setting is way faster than it should be. The speed sliders in gpointing-device-settings are in their normal positions, but I have to tweak any one of them slightly to make them actually apply. This slows my mouse down to the level I want.

I think this might also point to yet another bug: it seems that while the very first tweak to the touchpad speed after logout/login does indeed affect the speed (by simply resetting it to what it was set to last time), any other changes to the speed sliders does nothing. I'm not sure, but perhaps such changes might not apply until after the next logout/login. Strange.