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justanormalarchlinuxuser

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Registered: 2025-02-14

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How to disable Arch from using the PS4 Controller touchpad as a mouse

Hi, this is a solucion to Arch Linux using the touchpad of a PS4 or PS5 controller as a mouse (Thanks to cryptearth for the recommendation of making this post)

First you need to create a file, you can create the file in the way you like it, in my case i will use nano

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/72-ds4tm.rules

and you type

# Disable DS4 touchpad acting as mouse
# USB
ATTRS{name}=="Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"
# Bluetooth
ATTRS{name}=="Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

after you press Ctrl + O,  y (yes) and Ctrl + X

and we must not forget that normally the rules are updated automatically but just in case execute

udevadm control --reload

Btw i got the info from here for those who need it
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepa … controller
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udev#Loading_new_rules

Last edited by justanormalarchlinuxuser (2025-03-02 22:05:05)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: How to disable Arch from using the PS4 Controller touchpad as a mouse

Please don't use the bbs as your blog.
This kind of information would belong into the wiki… if it wasn't already in the wiki.

You can create an arch wiki account, create your own wiki page and collect specifics there or write yourself a local manpage or get a blog.

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justanormalarchlinuxuser

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Registered: 2025-02-14

Posts: 14

Re: How to disable Arch from using the PS4 Controller touchpad as a mouse

Please don't use the bbs as your blog.
This kind of information would belong into the wiki… if it wasn't already in the wiki.

You can create an arch wiki account, create your own wiki page and collect specifics there or write yourself a local manpage or get a blog.

ok, i am not going to do that again