Wind-Explorer
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2 years ago ok so I spent 20 minutes writing this issue and 10 seconds after opening the issue I was like "or is it that I need a restart of x-session like how Windows needs a restart for almost every new install of software so I proceeded to end the session and startx back then the trackpad worked XD
Based on the README.md the driver is supposed to be part of the linux kernel and there shouldn't be a problem to just plug and use directly. That is the case when I was using Pop!_OS. It worked across DEs and WMs and I must say the driver works great! It feels so seemless and I really appreciate the work you folks put into this. Now when I switched to Arch Linux with i3wm, I was initially using a generic mouse to navigate and when I had everything set up, I plugged in my apple magic trackpad 2 but the system does not look like it is recognizing the movement of my finger. The clicking worked though, I was able to hover the cursor with my mouse over a button and use the touchpad to click, but that is about it. No moving no scrolling no nothing with the touchpad. I checked my linux kernel with uname -srm and the output is
Linux 5.15.6-arch2-1 x86_64..which I assume is a version higher than the 4.20 shown in the README.md. If this is not because of me doing something horribly wrong like how Linus tries to install steam, but instead because I for some reason needs to manually install the driver because it didn't come with the install, then this may be a issue the contributors should look into as, correct me if I am wrong, but I expected the driver to be part of linux kernel like the documentation said and should work on all generic linux distros.