Arch Linux

harman2

Member

Registered: 2021-02-25

Posts: 4

My touchpad doesn't work

I updated my system in the morning with `sudo pacman -Syu` and everything seems to be as is except for my laptop's touchpad.

Now, I am able to move the mouse pointer location using my touchpad but what I cannot do is click. Eg: If I have to open a new tab on my Brave browser, even after clicking I cannot open them. Similarly for many other clicking functionalities such as to select a piece of text and so on.

I use i3 window manager and contents of my `.xinitrc` are as follows:

```
#!/bin/sh

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
exec i3
```

Any help is greatly appreciated. I am not sure what other information is necessary to debug this, I am glad to provide any other information.
Thanks.

harman2

Member

Registered: 2021-02-25

Posts: 4

Re: My touchpad doesn't work

I have been able to solve this following the wiki article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics. I am quite surprised what had changed after the system update since everything was working perfectly well before the update.