#881383 systemsettings: Touchpad settings don't actually work

Package:
systemsettings
Source:
systemsettings
Description:
System Settings interface
Submitter:
Ben Longbons
Date:
2017-11-10 23:45:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#881383#5
Date:
2017-11-10 23:43:12 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

In Hardware->Input Devices->Touchpad->Enable/Disable Touchpad:

There is a checkbox "Disable touchpad while typing". However,
even when unchecked (and the system restarted), the touchpad
still disables itself whenever any key is pressed.


Debugging on IRC produced the following observations:

evtest *does* show touchpad events when keys are pressed
but xev does not
and libinput-debug-events does not
(libinput-debug-events --disable-dwt does, however).

libinput-list-devices mentions: Disable-w-typing: enabled

So apparently this is a driver switch or something? Where KDE is only
applying the settings to the driver that isn't actually used anymore.