Touchpad requires 2 fingers to move cursor, 3 fingers to scroll etc

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Hi there,
I have switched to Wayland because it was the only possibility to use my Wacom graphic tablet properly. Since it seams to be the new standard Window manager in Manjaro I was expecting everything to work. It performs very well and delivers much smoother animations and I finaly can pinch to zoom in Firefox. Everything worked fine until I experienced this very annoying bug:

After waking up from sleep my touchpad starts requiring an additional finger. Meaning that I can only move the cursor with two fingers, scroll with three etc. This does not occur after every sleep.
Sometimes it starts working again after a while. Sometimes when it does not I turn off extensions and activate them again or start the libinput debug-gui where all the touchpad actions are recognized correctly. But none of this commands seem to help instantly. Sometimes the Touchpad starts working after a while or I need to restart my computer. Restarting resolves the problem in every case.

My Notebook is a Dell Latitude 7410. It has the following Touchpad: DELL09BE:00 0488:120A

I am on Manjaro Gnome with the newest kernel.

Does anyone have an advance how to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

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While I can offer little help with Wacom tablets, in general, here’s something to try in the meantime: Try switching to the current LTS kernel 6.1.xx via Manjaro Settings Manager, or whatever it equivalent is in Gnome. Cheers.

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Hi Soundofthunder,
actually I am on the latest LTS kernel (6.1.55-1). Since the latest big update from yesterday my touchpad did not require an additional finger for every action. But it’s still too early to cheer.

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To clarify, you switched to 6.1 since stating “I am on Manjaro Gnome with the newest kernel.”, and now the issue is moot?

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I prefer using the latest LTS Kernel and had almost no issues in X11 with that. It only happens in Wayland. After the last major update I’m on Linux 6.1.60-1-MANJARO and GNOME 45. The bug occurs less often than before but is still unsolved.
Does anyone have the same problem? Did anyone find a permanent fix?

Best regards.

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It might be worth trying kernel 6.6, which has now reached Stable.