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Touchpad settings manager doesn't work.

Hello! I tried setting up the touchpad on my Lenovo x201 laptop using a graphical touchpad setup program. Unfortunately, this utility does not open. Then I tried to run it in the terminal.

Here's what I saw:

# flsynclient 

(gtk2dialog:11810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 07:57:03.122: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion 'step != 0.0' failed

(gtk2dialog:11810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 07:57:03.122: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion 'GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:187:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
# EXIT="Exit on timeout"

Please help me configure the touchpad in BW64

From Dmitry (Russia)

@Maybe

In BW64, flsynclient is a symlink to psynclient which is a simple gtkdialog frontend for the synclient utility that modulates Synaptics TouchPad functions in the XOrg desktop environment.

Several gtkdialog spinbutton widgets in psynclient use floating point values which default to '.' (dot) as the decimal separator.

However, this can be problematic for users in locales that use ',' (comma) as the decimal separator, in which case the gtkdialog spinbutton widget will fail with the errors that you describe -- and psynclient will not launch.

Please try the following:

Load /usb/bin/psynclient in a text editor (geany/leafpad) and add the following line near the top of the script (line 15 would be OK):

export LC_NUMERIC=C

It would look like this:

13 export GTKDIALOG
14
15 export LC_NUMERIC=C
16
17 #define title-bar icon

If the above does not work for you, BW64 also supports libinput for touchpad control as follows:

To enable the Libinput Touchpad Manager, go to Menu -> Setup -> Puppy Setup -> Mouse / Keyboard button -> click the configuration button (lower right) -> select Libinput Touchpad Manager -> reboot.

See if your Lenovo has a mouse setting in the bios. Years back I found a mouse: Windows and mouse: Normal option. THAT was blocking all my attempts to get it working fully properly until I changed it to normal. Just a back burner tip.