Bug 374214

Summary: "Disable touchpad when typing" option does nothing with xf86-input-libinput
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Nicolas F. <kdebugs>
Component: kcm_touchpadAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: adam, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.17.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nicolas F. 2016-12-27 16:11:33 UTC
With xf86-input-libinput, turning off the "Disable touchpad when typing" option in the "Enable/Disable Touchpad" tab seemingly has no effect, as demonstrated by xinput list-props not changing.

It appears that libinput integration in general is quite poor, as quite a few options are greyed out. Furthermore, the version of systemsettings which I'm using (5.8.4) is not even listed as an option in the bugtracker. Is this software unmaintained?
Comment 1 Adam Pigg 2017-07-16 09:37:34 UTC
Same here on openSuse Tumbleweed, using plasma 5.10.3.

I would like to enable 'disable touchpad while typing' but the setting makes no difference.  Taps are still detected which can be frustrating.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-08-10 20:12:27 UTC
As you have discovered, Libinput support here is poor to nonexistent. Fixing that is tracked with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383379

As a workarounfd, you can either remove Libinput or configure it via .conf files if you're using Xorg: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput#Configuration

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 383379 ***
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2017-11-20 16:09:46 UTC
Libinput support is currently only active in Wayland. This setting works fine in the Wayland version, but we can't access it from X11 yet. Duping this to

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 387153 ***