Hi … I can’t solve a problem of continued random pasting of previously copied text into various office applications and coding on my laptop using the touchpad … I think the issue started about a year ago … has anyone experienced this issue? … the problem doesn’t occur with a wireless mouse … clearing the Clipboard provides some relief but the issue can even occur after the Clipboard is cleared … I’ve tried many different touchpad settings (in System Settings/Input Devices/Touchpad) without success, such as two and three-button configurations … at one stage it was so bad that I almost couldn’t work on some documents because the damage was uncontrollable and I still can’t trust it … sometimes the pasting even occurs in different place than I was viewing … so all-in-all this is very inconvenient … I’m a thirty-year Suse user and quite used to solving issues … my system definition is below … thanks!
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231127
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.6.2-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX
Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: Metabox
Product Name: Prime-SR PD50SNE
System Version: Not Applicable
NVIDIA modules loaded
I disable the touchpad on my laptop. My typing habits are such that I am often accidentally tapping the keypad, which causes problems if I don’t disable.
I have a Dell Latitude and a Lenovo ThinkPad, both with touchpad. I’ve never experienced the issue you’re having.
The only oddball issue (and rare) is when a finger accidentally taps the touchpad while I’m typing (my fault). That results in the cursor being moved.
Seems you have an issue with the laptop’s touchpad mechanics/ electrical /sensitivity, which would not be related to the operating system.
Might post the issue to the laptop manufacturer’s technical forums. (I’ve never heard of Metabox, which really doesn’t mean anything ). You may find other folks with that problem using the same laptop.
Or, maybe check the laptop’s BIOS settings - might be something there to scale back it’s functionality or sensitivity (?).
I think this issue is related to a known kernel bug … wayland libinput says nothing can be done about it … journalctl | grep libinput shows lots of issues like …
“Nov 02 12:42:17 localhost.localdomain kwin_wayland[21364]: kwin_libinput: Libinput: event11 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
See Touchpad jumping cursor bugs — libinput 1.24.0 documentation for details”
… btw Metabox is Clevo is Tuxedo …
Yet another reason I will not run Wayland. In my mind, it’s still not mature enough to be reliable, so I avoid it. To me, the side effects far outweigh the advantages.
This problem is a real “pain in the neck”. For other people’s information, I’ve solved it with the fix:
“You can disable the klipper widget (Plasma 5’s clipboard widget) by right clicking the system tray (the drop down menu arrow on taskbar)>>Configure system tray>>Deselect “Clipboard” from the General settings page (according to the manual in /usr/doc/HTML/en/klipper). This will remove the klipper widget and stop it from saving further clipboard history in $HOME/.local/share/klipper. The cut/paste function and xclipboard will still work with the widget disabled. You probably dont want to disable that kind of core function altogether and would be out of the scope of Plasma 5.”
Clipboard is gone but the cut/paste functionality remains.
). You may find other folks with that problem using the same laptop.