Bug 1221473

Summary:	Plasma 6 touchpad cannot be disabled
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Matthew Mah <mattm3a>
Component:	KDE Workspace (Plasma)	Assignee:	E-Mail List <opensuse-kde-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	fkrueger, fvogt, mattm3a
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	Other
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Description Matthew Mah 2024-03-15 14:30:35 UTC

In KDE Plasma version 6.0.1, the touchpad is not identified under system settings: "No touchpad found". The touchpad still functions as expected, however, so the touchpad cannot be disabled and stray touches can disrupt typing. 

This is on a Lenovo T480.

Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2024-03-15 14:59:49 UTC

Do you have xf86-input-synaptics installed?

If yes, uninstall it, make sure xf86-input-libinput is installed, logout and restart your session

Comment 2 Matthew Mah 2024-03-18 21:08:06 UTC

Resolved by removing xf86-input-synaptics.

Comment 3 Frank Krüger 2024-03-18 22:02:34 UTC

I presume this is within X11 session. Given https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/coammit/12ac086128c7e7db831f35d53616db0d6823fd90, does it make sense to remove the synaptics touchpad driver automatically (Wayland uses libinput anyway I guess)?

Comment 4 Fabian Vogt 2024-03-19 07:26:02 UTC

(In reply to Frank Krüger from comment #3)
> I presume this is within X11 session. Given
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/coammit/
> 12ac086128c7e7db831f35d53616db0d6823fd90, does it make sense to remove the
> synaptics touchpad driver automatically (Wayland uses libinput anyway I
> guess)?

Yes, but the issue is that the package was installed by default on previous versions and thus adding a Conflicts: would require user intervention to choose between Plasma 6 and xf86-input-synaptics. That can be confusing andchoosing the wrong option would uninstall Plasma... Adding an obsoletes to just remove it everywhere would not be correct either. Not sure what to do.