How to switch to Synaptics

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Hi There,

So, I was using Fedora 31 on KDE spin for a little while, and I installed Synaptics for the touchpad, and when I finally tuned the setings, it worked really nice.

Now I went back to Gnome, an when I installed Synaptics again (new system install) I do not get the system settings that I got on KDE, even thou I installed the same packages, I still get the same Gnome settings for the touchpad.

So is there some other packages that I am missing? or synaptics behave different on every DE ?.

Tnx.

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This is a Xorg driver. Its settings only related to Xorg-sessions. Gnome uses Wayland by default. But your can try out Gnome’s Xorg-session:

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# proof:
dnf search synaptic
Last metadata expiration check: 3:02:17 ago on Fri 31 Jan 2020 05:38:06 PM +07.
======================== Name & Summary Matched: synaptic ========================
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel.i686 : Xorg X11 synaptics input driver
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel.x86_64 : Xorg X11 synaptics input driver
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy.x86_64 : Xorg X11 synaptics input driver

(Red Hat (IBM™) is abandoned Xorg, because this is the time for “something completely different”.)

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OMG! so obvious, I did not think of that !!! hahaha,

anyway, I switched to Xorg and now I have zero settings for touchpad, it disappeared ! haha , I mean the touchpad works, but there are no settings for it. not on Xorg; which is even weirder,

So thanks, now I know what I am dealing with.

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🛸️

Naive relative! Don’t your thouhgt that KDE’ll allow your to go away so easily!? Or that Gnome’ll just stay around and wait for your return, huh?

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lol indeed, maybe it is time to do some desktop hopping, see what I find.

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You seem to continuously be bashing Fedora in a slight of mind way. If you don’t like Fedora, why are you here?

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Show your love to Fedora and help TS out with Grubby, as your promised:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/help-adding-a-menuentry-in-grub/73092/13

I’m deed.  “Read the man!  It’s rather huge, and actually, TS’d asked for a ready solution, step-by-step.  Or just reinstall it!” – your being silly.