[Bug 633125] Re: syndaemon polls 5 times a second

[Rodrigo Moya]

Sergey, I was going to push this to gnome-settings-daemon upstream, but
since that should work on all distributions/versions of syncdaemon, can
someone please confirm that the -R is harmless if syndaemon is not
compiled with the XRecord extension?

For natty, the attached branch fixes it

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Title:
  syndaemon polls 5 times a second

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

  The "Disable touchpad while typing" option in
  System->Preferences->Mouse launches syndaemon -i 0.5 -k.
  Unfortunately syndaemon seems to poll every 200ms even when the system
  is otherwise idle, waking up the CPU and presumably wasting power.

  syndaemon has code to use XRecord to avoid polling, but it appears to
  be compiled without HAVE_XRECORD, even though Xorg appears to provide
  that extension (judging from xdpyinfo output).  It also requires -R to
  be passed on the command line, although perhaps it would be a
  reasonable default?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-2ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
  Architecture: i386