Re: git: 1c82c9f99ce3 - main - x11/plasma6-plasma-desktop: Fix the Touchpad KCM

From: Jason E. Hale <jhale_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 04:38:16 UTC
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:30:57 GMT Gleb Popov wrote:
> > The branch main has been updated by arrowd:
> >
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=1c82c9f99ce3b1a46f034af88387eca24927233e
> >
> > commit 1c82c9f99ce3b1a46f034af88387eca24927233e
> > Author:     Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2025-03-11 06:29:00 +0000
> > Commit:     Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2025-03-11 06:30:53 +0000
> >
> >     x11/plasma6-plasma-desktop: Fix the Touchpad KCM
> >
> >     - It needs libinput to be present build-time
> >     - Synaptics driver prevents libinput from attaching to touchpad devices
>
> libinput is already pulled by qt6-base. And the presence of xf86-input-synaptics
> changes nothing at least for me: the touchpad kcm worked fine for me before commit
> as well (I'm using packages). So I believe the problem is elsewhere.
>
> Max
>

It worked for me too*, but there's still no point depending on
xf86-input-synaptics anymore after [1].

*Full disclosure: I've long had an xorg config snippet in
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d [2] to use libinput for the touchpad.

[1] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/12ac086128c7e7db831f35d53616db0d6823fd90
[2] https://pastebin.com/7Bfj110y

-Jason