Lenovo Ideapad. Two-finger scrolling with the laptop’s touchpad is extremely sensitive, moving my fingers by the height of the trackpad scrolls to the end of most webpages, which I can’t get used to. Searching around for my issue cuminates in either xinput, which I can’t find with pacman, or a page on the Arch Wiki for an obsolete driver.
Hi, if they also said what kind of shell you have, for example, KDE, then I could show where it is configured)
Pretty sure my shell is KDE? It’s a fresh install of the KDE Plasma version of Manjaro anyway.
Yeah, that isn’t there. The rest of the menu is identical, there’s simply no slider.
It’s xorg-xinput.
For future reference you can find the package that owns a file by using pacman -F file though you may need to update the file database first sudo pacman -Fy file.
Though in this case a simple search would do pacman -Ss xinput
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Search_for_a_package_that_contains_a_specific_file
Will that work if they are running a Plasma Wayland session?
It would be helpful if @Fatmeatball could provide some system information (inxi -Fazy) as their user profile provides no information other than “Stable”.
2 main questions must be answered first…
X11 or Wayland?
Libinput or Synaptics?
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Sorry! New to Manjaro and the forum. It’s here: System: Kernel: 6.10.11-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2 - Pastebin.com
How can I tell if I’m using Libinput or Synaptics?
If you dont know and the install isnt super old then this probably means libinput.
We can also check if synaptics is installed.
pacman -Qs synaptic
Also aside from running xinput as already discussed… you could try looking at
sudo libinput list-devices
Okay. The pastebin says you’re using Plasma on an X11 session:
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.5.0
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
So the xinput recommendations by @cscs should apply.
Is there any specific reason why you are using X11 rather than Wayland? You don’t have an Nvidia GPU, so your system may work better on Wayland, which uses libinput.
That was what was default when I installed Manjaro, and from a quick google it seems systems without an Nvidia GPU work worse on Wayland. Though obviously I’m not about to claim superior knowledge from that
After some intense googling to try and find where I left off on how to change trackpad properties, I think it’d be better if I just gave up on this for a while. I don’t understand why some people get a GUI slider to change this setting and others have to resort to uncovering cryptic numbers and then needing to automatically run that command at boot.
Forgot about that, it does show devices, but with weird wayland names. Not sure about anything else.
I was really just telling them how to find it, and other things.
That speed slider is exposed via GUI only for Wayland.
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