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PSA: Plasma Wayland on laptop is still a pain to use
lemmy.worldPSA: Plasma Wayland on laptop is still a pain to use - Lemmy.worldI thought it would be great to spread awareness about this issue, hence I’m
sharing it with you here. In X11 there is a nice feature called “Turn off
touchpad while mouse is plugged in” - it’s a lifesaver when you have a laptop
with big touchpad; me and lots of people with this issue accidentally hit it all
the time while typing. Plasma X11 touchpad settings
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8a5512c8-d2f0-452b-a78f-6ebf45a11b11.png]
However in Wayland this setting is missing. After some digging people found out
that this is not an issue with the libinput driver itself (used for touchpads on
Wayland), as it is supporting this feature for a while now; rather it’s an issue
with the settings app itself, simply not implementing this feature while using
Wayland. Hope this will get attention from the community, as the recognition
from the dev’s side is minimal.
@Sqaaakoi@wetdry.world@JokaJukka Have you tried switching to X11, enabling the setting, then switching back to Wayland? Does that do anything?
Unfortunately this simple trick does not work. It seems to be a backend issue too (not just missing button).