Created attachment 133884 [details] Mouse is always used SUMMARY The touchpad works until I click on "Input Devices" in system setting. I then get a notification that the "Touchpad was disabled because a mouse was plugged in" even though it was plugged in from boot up. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. After logging in, I verify that the touchpad is still working with a mouse plugged in 2. Then click on "Input Devices" in system setting 3. I then get a notification that the "Touchpad was disabled because a mouse was plugged in" even though it was plugged in from boot up OBSERVED RESULT The touchpad is still working despite a mouse plugged in and the system is set to disable touchpad when mouse is plugged in. EXPECTED RESULT The touchpad should not work when a mouse is plugged in. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20201203 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.9.11-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Created attachment 133885 [details] Now the Touchpad is disabled after clicking on "Input Devices" in system settings Now the Touchpad is disabled after clicking on "Input Devices" in system settings
I'm using Leap w/ KDE repos and Plasma 5.20.4. For me, the touchpad does not disable at all when I plug-in my mouse. Horizontal scrolling was not working for me, but deleting ~/.config/touchpadrc fixed it... no luck with disabling the touchpad, though.
I have another laptop with Leap 15.2 and it doesn't have this issue. Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.2 KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0 Qt Version: 5.12.7 Kernel Version: 5.3.18-lp152.54-default OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
What is just as interesting is that when I unplug the mouse from both Leap and TW the system is aware that the usb device is no longer plugged in, but the touchpad doesn't work. I would probably need to logoff or reboot.
Yes! But you are on the LTS version (the one shipped with Leap by default). Honestly, my touchpad did disable itself when I plugged my mouse after deleting touchpadrc and tweaking my settings again. The thing that led me to that solution was that after switching to KDE repos, KDE Connect was showing duplicated notifications, which I also fixed by deleting all kdeconnect related settings at ~/.config and setting up everything again. Probably the version jump was big for my system. Other users reported issues with the touchpad disable option (Tumbleweed) on the openSUSE Telegram, first it disappeared, then it came back but did not work. They probably fixed it by now. I think it was when 5.20.3 came out.
Updated to 5.21, but now the touchpad will not even disable when I go to the Input Device section. I now have pull the mouse out and put it back in for the touchpad to stop working.
Also, when the mouse is pulled out the touchpad doesn't work. I would probably need to reboot in order for the touchpad to work. I'll test it.
So after rebooting I now have to click on the Touchpad in the Input Device settings for the Touchpad to stop working when a mouse is plugged in.
I'm on 5.21 and don't see the option to disable the touchpad when a mouse is connected, not sure where or what are you looking at My touchpad did not want work after the update, but same as before, doing rm ~/.config/touchpad* fixed it
Created attachment 135914 [details] Enable/Disable option Hey Anderes, Here is a screenshot showing the Enable/Disable option. When I click on the touchpad I get the notification that the mouse has been disabled. Wow... You don't have this option in Leap? Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210217 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.16-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Created attachment 135915 [details] Touchpad Enable-Disable option
Created attachment 135916 [details] touchpad settings on wayland I switched to Tumbleweed yesterday since I was done adding a dozen repos to have the newest software I used to have that same menu as you until I launched a Wayland session on 5.20, since then I see the same reduced set of options as wayland, on xorg. I think this is a feature to have consistency, but I am not sure.
This issue appears to be resolved. For the past week when logging in I now see the notification that the Touchpad has been disabled. ;-)) But, the notification is not there when I click on the bell. Hey Andrés B.S., What about you?
But, there is still the issue when the mouse is unplugged the Touchpad does not work.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/455
Git commit 3b4026641454c02ad3030c8cd2134a672995ffa9 by Nate Graham. Committed on 18/05/2021 at 18:15. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Delete the Touchpad applet Ths only thing this applet can do is disable or re-enable your touchpad. If you have no touchpad, it is pointless. If you have only a touchpad and no mouse, then the only thing it can do is give you a way to brick your laptop until you find a mouse you can use to re-enable the touchpad. The only conceivable non-catastrophic usage of this applet is to manually disable a laptop's touchpad when a mouse is plugged in. This is an extremely niche use case that can already be accomplished by using the "Toggle Touchpad" keyboard shortcut which is exported by the KCM, and would be better served by a setting in the touchpad KCM itself to automatically disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in and re-enable it when unplugged, should such a feature be deemed useful. I have my doubts, as Libinput has gotten very good at ignoring false input these days, so I think there is no longer much of a use case for disabling a touchpad at all. Overall, this applet is not worth the bugs and degradation of the user experience that it can cause. It is too dangerous to exist. Let's delete it. Related: bug 434720, bug 434718, bug 397210, bug 378879, bug 434717 FIXED-IN: 5.23 M +1 -1 kcms/touchpad/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -155 kcms/touchpad/applet/qml/contents/ui/touchpad.qml D +0 -160 kcms/touchpad/applet/qml/metadata.desktop D +0 -30 kcms/touchpad/applet/touchpad.svg R +4 -12 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/CMakeLists.txt [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/CMakeLists.txt - 065% similarity] R +0 -0 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/plasma-dataengine-touchpad.desktop [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/plasma-dataengine-touchpad.desktop - 100% similarity] R +0 -0 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/touchpad.operations [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/touchpad.operations - 100% similarity] R +0 -0 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/touchpadengine.cpp [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/touchpadengine.cpp - 100% similarity] R +0 -0 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/touchpadengine.h [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/touchpadengine.h - 100% similarity] R +0 -0 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/touchpadservice.cpp [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/touchpadservice.cpp - 100% similarity] R +0 -0 kcms/touchpad/dataengine/touchpadservice.h [from: kcms/touchpad/applet/touchpadservice.h - 100% similarity] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/3b4026641454c02ad3030c8cd2134a672995ffa9