Bug 513586

Summary: Being able to control the ms required between clicks
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Fernando M. Muniz <fernandommuniz>
Component: kcm_touchpadAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: wishlist CC: duha.bugs, natalie_clarius, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: accessibility, usability
Version First Reported In: 6.5.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: CachyOS   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Fernando M. Muniz 2025-12-19 19:36:03 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Have a touchpad that causes a "phantom second click"

OBSERVED RESULT
There's no way of avoiding it.

EXPECTED RESULT
There should be a way of increasing the milliseconds necessary to a second click, from 0ms to 1sec.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.2-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
Memory: 9 GB of RAM (8.1 GB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82MG
System Version: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IHU6
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-12-22 17:59:46 UTC 
This is something you need to report to Libinput, a that's the level where this can be worked around.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/

Best of luck!