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ATnpG

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Registered: 2025-06-26

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[Solved] Disable touchpad zoom on KDE/Wayland

Using KDE/Wayland on a T580 laptop. Not sure whether to blame Wayland or KDE.

Whenever I "reverse" pinch using three fingers on the touchpad, the entire screen zooms in to the cursor (I have to then pinch again to zoom out). Not just the application, but the *entire* screen/desktop environment is zoomed in. I find this extremely confusing and annoying because I often end up accidentally doing it. Is there a way to disable this behavior? I tried various permutations of searches to disable touchpad gestures, but I didn't have any luck. All results are old threads from like 5 years ago saying these things are not configurable on KDE.

Last edited by ATnpG (2025-07-22 05:11:18)

motuzj

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Registered: 2025-07-21

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Re: [Solved] Disable touchpad zoom on KDE/Wayland

I had the same problem and found out it’s caused by a desktop effect. You can disable it in:

System Settings >  Window Management > Desktop Effects > Zoom

Hope this helps!

ATnpG

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Registered: 2025-06-26

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Disable touchpad zoom on KDE/Wayland

THANK YOU! This was driving me crazy. Also insane that they used a round checkbox option for that instead of a normal checkbox, it makes it look like it's a mandatory choice.

hkorkut

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Registered: 2026-05-18

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Re: [Solved] Disable touchpad zoom on KDE/Wayland

You can disable desktop zoom via: Accessibility>Zoom&Magnifier select disabled option. (Plasma 6.6)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] Disable touchpad zoom on KDE/Wayland

Thanks for the additional input, do note that the thread is a year old and was fixed via one mean that's likely to still work,

Closing this old topic.