Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan 2004-11-29 20:08:24 CET

Looks like a bug in the driver probably triggered by the mouse settings.

Please locate "mouse_plugin.so" usually in "/usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/" and
remove it.

(In reply to comment #0)
> I use gdm as my display manager ad xfce as my window manager.  My laptop
> touchpad uses the Synaptic drivers and works fine under gnome, kde etc and every
> other window manager I have tried.  However, when I log into my xfce4 session
> the touchpad behaviour becomes erratic and jumps all over the screen (it
> basically becomes unusable).
> 
> None of the settings in the menus seem to make any difference and based on the
> evidence above it looks like an xfce problem.  Help please!

That has worked perfectly and my touchpad (and USB mouse) are no functioning in
harmony!

Thanks,

Comment 3 Olivier Fourdan 2004-11-29 21:09:55 CET

Sorry, does that mean that fixes the issue for you?

If so, I'll close the bug, as I believe the issue is in you driver.

(In reply to comment #0)
> I use gdm as my display manager ad xfce as my window manager.  My laptop
> touchpad uses the Synaptic drivers and works fine under gnome, kde etc and every
> other window manager I have tried.  However, when I log into my xfce4 session
> the touchpad behaviour becomes erratic and jumps all over the screen (it
> basically becomes unusable).
> 
> None of the settings in the menus seem to make any difference and based on the
> evidence above it looks like an xfce problem.  Help please!

Not sure that I agree that the issue is with my driver as it worked fine with
every other window manager I tried.  However, the issue for me is now fixed so I
will leave the decision on whether to close this or not up to you.

Comment 5 Olivier Fourdan 2005-01-06 19:19:31 CET

Ok, I'm closing it because I am 100% sure it's bug with the driver (the fact
that the bug doesn't show in other envoironment proves nothing but that they
might not change the mouse params)