synclient stops working

sanjaychak01 · 2018-02-16 10:35:54

One of the updates in the last 1 week has caused synclient to stop working.

$ synclient
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

I tried to see if the touchpad is detected at all

$ dmesg | grep Syn
[ 12.761399] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep Syn
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

So the device is being detected all right, but xinput says something else

$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ xwayland-pointer:13    id=6 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13 id=7 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard    id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard    id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ xwayland-keyboard:13 id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]

Therefore, no touchpad, as far as xinput is concerned.

What happened suddenly?

seth · 2018-02-16 12:04:34

You're on wayland.

sanjaychak01 · 2018-02-16 12:58:22

I know But it was working so far.

seth · 2018-02-16 13:03:38

synclient is part of xf86-input-synaptics ... how this would have ever remotely worked on wayland (or even xwayland) is beyond me.
Start "gnome on Xorg" instead.

sanjaychak01 · 2018-02-16 13:31:29

Sorry, you are right. I just checked my startup script, and it is syndaemon, not synclient, that has stopped working

Anyway, I did what you said, and I have both syndaemon and synclient working again. So, thanks a lot!

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#1 2018-02-16 10:35:54

synclient stops working

#2 2018-02-16 12:04:34

Re: synclient stops working

#3 2018-02-16 12:58:22

Re: synclient stops working

#4 2018-02-16 13:03:38

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#5 2018-02-16 13:31:29

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