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#1 2017-02-02 20:32:22

cb951303
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[SOLVED] Synaptics is uninstalled yet Xorg still uses it. How?

So I want to use libinput for my synaptics touchpad instead of xf86-input-synaptics. So this is what I've done:

1- Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
2- Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-libinput.conf with appropriate options
3- Remove xf86-input-synaptics package
4- Make sure xf86-input-libinput is installed
5- Restart

The thing is my touchpad works but it looks like Xorg is still using synaptics instead of libinput.

grep -e "Using input driver " ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
[     9.918] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Power Button'
[     9.934] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Video Bus'
[     9.935] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Video Bus'
[     9.938] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Sleep Button'
[     9.940] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'XiaoMi USB 2.0 Webcam'
[     9.942] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[     9.945] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[     9.947] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Dell AIO WMI hotkeys'
[    10.057] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'

How is this possible?

PS: I'm using Gnome if that makes a difference

Last edited by cb951303 (2017-02-03 07:08:49)

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#2 2017-02-02 21:45:15

Raynman
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Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics is uninstalled yet Xorg still uses it. How?

Are you sure you have the right log file? If you're using a display manager, X usually runs as root with logs in /var/log/.

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#3 2017-02-02 22:29:28

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Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics is uninstalled yet Xorg still uses it. How?

Hmm turns out the local Xorg log was last updated 2 weeks ago. But I've checked the xorg logs under /var/log and those are not updated as well. So where is the xorg log?

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#4 2017-02-02 23:09:28

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Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics is uninstalled yet Xorg still uses it. How?

Are you using X? What does 'echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE' return?


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#5 2017-02-03 07:08:29

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Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics is uninstalled yet Xorg still uses it. How?

Ok I've found that it was  ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log not 0.

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