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Hey friends, periodically, my laptop trackpad clicks will stop being registered by Plasma. I'm using Plasma in Wayland.
I used to use tap-to-click but it kept clicking on things when I was typing in spite of me turning on the setting to disable the trackpad while typing. Admittedly that's probably a tough problem to solve so no hard feelings there.
The thing is, actually clicking fails at some point, and I can't seem to figure out any pattern behind this. My workaround is to use the Super key to get into the system settings, and then I select "Mouse & Touchpad" -> "Touchpad". Typically just going this far will make the clicking work again, but sometimes I need to select a setting randomly, change it, select "Apply", and then the clicks work again, so I can go disable the random thing I just enabled.
This is pretty annoying. This has happened for as long as I can remember and I've never figured out a diagnosis nor workaround.
I looked in my system journal, poked around in /var/log, looked at dmesg...can't seem to figure this one out so help is appreciated. Thanks!!
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