[Regression] Recent 18.04 patch broke synaptic right click areas.

Asked by Peter Geis

Ubuntu 18.04 Daily Update
[Regression] [Bug]
Symptoms:
Synaptic driver right click area worked prior to a recent patch (~18 Mar).
With all current updates applied, Synaptic right click zone does not function.
Confirmed function is enabled in Gnome Settings and Gnome Tweaks.

xinput list-props shows "Synaptics Soft Button Areas (330): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0"
Syslog shows /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1565]: (**) Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"

Manually setting synclient rightbuttonarealeft=1000 && synclient rightbuttonareatop=700 restores normal function.

I am unsure of how best to report this bug, so I am posting it as a question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

If you run:

ubuntu-bug xorg

It will start the process for you

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#2

Please pay attention for correct naming:

synaptic is a package management program
and
synaptics is a TouchPad driver (and this is what you are talking about).

There was no update on the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package since October 2017, but a new version of xorg-server server on March 17, 2018.

This is why I doubt that this is caused by a change in the synaptics package, but rather by the recent xorg-server update.

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