Bug 488148

Summary: "Touch Mode" no longer enables automatically in Plasma desktop 6.0.5
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: m1vri31c
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: NixOS   
OS: Linux   
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Description m1vri31c 2024-06-07 06:53:34 UTC
SUMMARY
"Touch Mode" no longer enables automatically in Plasma desktop 6.0.5

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set Touch Mode to Automatically enable as needed in General Behaviour
2. Disconnect keyboard and mouse from touchscreen device

OBSERVED RESULT
Touch Mode does not activate

EXPECTED RESULT
Touch Mode activates

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
NixOS 24.11 (unstable channel)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0 
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-06-07 15:05:43 UTC
Detection in this manner comes from the Libinput library; we're not involved in it at all. Please report this issue at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/. Thanks!
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2024-06-19 23:31:17 UTC
*** Bug 488139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 m1vri31c 2024-09-08 11:49:25 UTC
I figured out what is going on. I use Keyd to remap my keyboard and it apparently has a "virtual pointer" that I didn't know about.