I thought it would be great to spread awareness about this issue, hence I’m sharing it with you here.

In X11 there is a nice feature called “Turn off touchpad while mouse is plugged in” - it’s a lifesaver when you have a laptop with big touchpad; me and lots of people with this issue accidentally hit it all the time while typing.

Plasma X11 touchpad settings

However in Wayland this setting is missing. After some digging people found out that this is not an issue with the libinput driver itself (used for touchpads on Wayland), as it is supporting this feature for a while now; rather it’s an issue with the settings app itself, simply not implementing this feature while using Wayland.

Hope this will get attention from the community, as the recognition from the dev’s side is minimal.

    • @JokaJukkaOP
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      161 year ago

      What a nice and civilized way to say that title is misleading. Changing it rn. Thank you sir!

      That’s why Lemmy >> Reddit

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah. There’s actual discussion instead of people repeating the same unfunny jokes to ‘fit in’ and gain ‘karma.’