Bug 509383

Summary:	Tablet buttons options disappeared
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Victor Santos <cogumelo>
Component:	kcm_tablet	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, josh
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Victor Santos 2025-09-11 13:40:07 UTC

SUMMARY
At some point, all tablet buttons were shown on kcm_tablet, but after some updates the buttons tab disappeared from UI.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: KDE Plasma 6.4.4
Qt Version:  Qt 6.9.2 (x86_64-little_endian-lp64 shared (dynamic) release build; by GCC 15.2.1 20250813) on "wayland" 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
XP-Pen Deco L

I tried with a old Wacom tablet and the buttons tab was working

Comment 1 Joshua Goins 2025-09-11 14:41:50 UTC

They did not disappear, it's because your model is unsupported somewhere in the stack. You're on Arch Linux, correct? And did you ever install any user-space drivers: e.g. XP-PEN's, OpenTabletDriver, etc

Comment 2 Victor Santos 2025-09-11 15:09:38 UTC

(In reply to Joshua Goins from comment #1)
> They did not disappear, it's because your model is unsupported somewhere in
> the stack. You're on Arch Linux, correct? And did you ever install any
> user-space drivers: e.g. XP-PEN's, OpenTabletDriver, etc

I never installed any tablet driver. It used to just work.

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-26 03:47:29 UTC

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Comment 4 Joshua Goins 2025-09-26 19:39:37 UTC

(In reply to Victor Santos from comment #2)
> (In reply to Joshua Goins from comment #1)
> > They did not disappear, it's because your model is unsupported somewhere in
> > the stack. You're on Arch Linux, correct? And did you ever install any
> > user-space drivers: e.g. XP-PEN's, OpenTabletDriver, etc
> 
> I never installed any tablet driver. It used to just work.

But we don't control whether or not your tablet is exposed, so clearly something changed with your system. It could be something not controlled by you - like the kernel.