Hi,
using Gnome 3.26.2 I enabled Wayland session by installing gnome-session-wayland and [FONT=arial]xorg-x11-server-wayland.
After logging in I noticed that my synaptics enabled touchpad wasn’t working anymore the same way. I guess it went back to libinput instead. However in order to use circular scrolling I need xf86-input-synaptics (and gsynaptics to enable it).
Is there a way to use the synaptics driver under Wayland?
[/FONT] Thank you.
No, Wayland uses libinput exclusively AFAIU. In any case, evdev and synaptics have already been deprecated for recent X-server and desktop environments. Gnome depends on libinput now.
That’s bad. I still depend on synaptics for circular scrolling which I cannot get to work with libinput 
Oh well, X11 it is then. I’ve opened a bug request in libinput (or rather a feature request?).
Yeah, that’s the best way forward.
Are you sure you use wayland?
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
Yes, definitely.
In X11 synaptics works fine, once I start a Wayland session it doesn’t, probably afaik it goes back using libinput then, which doesn’t support some features that synaptics does.
Well that’s bad news:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105297
Won’t fix. Niche feature. Great, guess I have to stay on X11 forever moving forward.
Well, at least you got a definitive answer. It’s not a feature I’ve ever used (I do use edge scrolling), but I can understand why you’d be disappointed with that decision.
It’s especially useful if you have a circular touchpad, which most Panasonic notebooks have:
https://liliputing-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sz6_05.jpg
Wow, I can’t remember the last time I saw a Panasonic laptop. Not common in NZ. I wasn’t aware of round touchpads either. I assumed a rectangular shape was best to reflect the shape of the display for practical cursor positioning. 