Touchpad not working properly after update to Plasma 6

TraceyC77 commented 8 months ago

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Summary

After updating to Plasma 6, the touchpad is not fully working

Steps to reproduce

Go to Settings - Mouse & Touchpad - Touchpad

Expected result

Settings for the touchpad are shown

Actual result

The only thing on the pane is the text

"No touchpad found"

Environment

[X] Is system up to date?

Repo

Unstable

Desktop Environment

Plasma

System details

Operating System: Solus 4.5 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.6.21-280.current (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 17 9710

Other comments

Synaptics driver is installed

❯ eopkg info xorg-driver-input-synaptics
Installed package:
Name                : xorg-driver-input-synaptics, version: 1.9.2, release: 32

The touchpad is working, but not all functionality is working.These are not working:

Tap to click
Two finger tap for right click
Three finger tap for middle click

Justinzobel commented 8 months ago

If you run this from a terminal does it show that it's not found? Mine for example with Plasma 6 and touchpad (my settings shows all the tickboxes etc)

kcmshell6 kcm_touchpad
kcm_touchpad: Touchpad found: "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" ("event6")

TraceyC77 commented 7 months ago

Here are my results:

Dell XPS - where problem reported

❯ kcmshell6 kcm_touchpad
qt.qml.typeresolution.cycle: Cyclic dependency detected between "qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/desktop/private/TextFieldContextMenu.qml" and "qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/desktop/MenuItem.qml"
qrc:/libinput/touchpad.qml:691: TypeError: Cannot read property 'supportsScrollFactor' of null

This brings up the touchpad settings pane, which says "No touchpad found"

Lenovo Flex - does not have the problem

On the Flex, the touchpad works as expected.

$ kcmshell6 kcm_touchpad
kcm_touchpad: Touchpad found: "ELN4690:00 04F3:304B Touchpad" ("event7")
qt.qml.typeresolution.cycle: Cyclic dependency detected between "qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/desktop/private/TextFieldContextMenu.qml" and "qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/desktop/MenuItem.qml"

This brings up the touchpad settings pane, with all settings showing

As seen by the output, kcm_touchpad has different errors on the two systems. On the Dell, it looks to me like the error from the back end is the issue

The system does detect the touchpad

~ ❯❯❯ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ZSA Technology Labs ErgoDox EZ Glow       id=15   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ZSA Technology Labs ErgoDox EZ Glow Consumer Control      id=13   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech G502                             id=16   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ DELL0A5D:00 04F3:311C Mouse               id=17   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ DELL0A5D:00 04F3:311C Touchpad            id=18   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                        id=25   [slave  pointer  (2)

TraceyC77 commented 7 months ago

I found an upstream issue which also has the solution. The bug I experienced may be due to Plasma dropping synaptics config

To reiterate the soluion here:

I had xorg-driver-input-synaptics installed because in Plasma 5, it was necessary to be able to see all options for my touchpad. (Otherwise, some checkboxes were not present)

After uninstalling xorg-driver-input-synaptics and rebooting, I now see all settings in the Touchpad settings. Closing this issue.

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