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
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!
*** Bug 488139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.