diff --git a/capplets/mouse/ChangeLog b/capplets/mouse/ChangeLog
index 554a395b9..773cd5776 100644
--- a/capplets/mouse/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/mouse/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-03-10  Seth Nickell  <snickell@stanford.edu>
+
+	* gnome-mouse-properties.c: (main):
+
+	Activate the settings daemon if its not already running.
+
 2002-02-27  Kjartan Maraas  <kmaraas@gnome.org>
 
 	* gnome-mouse-properties.c: s/PACKAGE/GETTEXT_PACKAGE/g
diff --git a/capplets/mouse/gnome-mouse-properties.c b/capplets/mouse/gnome-mouse-properties.c
index c2b17c1ef..38e26c26c 100644
--- a/capplets/mouse/gnome-mouse-properties.c
+++ b/capplets/mouse/gnome-mouse-properties.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 
 #include "capplet-util.h"
 #include "gconf-property-editor.h"
+#include "activate-settings-daemon.h"
+
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
@@ -689,6 +691,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 			    GNOME_PARAM_APP_DATADIR, GNOMECC_DATA_DIR,
 			    NULL);
 
+	activate_settings_daemon ();
+
 	client = gconf_client_get_default ();
 	gconf_client_add_dir (client, "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse", GCONF_CLIENT_PRELOAD_ONELEVEL, NULL);