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FS#44458 - [gdm] Touchpad does not work with gdm

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by FiX (fix) - Friday, 03 April 2015, 17:08 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 26 June 2016, 14:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Elantech touchpad does not work with the latest gdm (with wayland).
There are similar topic on bbs: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195285

Additional info:
gdm 3.16.0.1-1
libgdm 3.16.0.1-1
mutter 3.16.0-1

Steps to reproduce:
Just start gdm with systemd.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Sunday, 26 June 2016, 14:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Samantha McVey (samcv) - Friday, 10 June 2016, 01:40 GMT
Much time has passed since this bug was reported. Can you please give us an update if this is still an issue for you? If it is still an issue, which input driver are you using? GDM now uses Wayland which only supports libinput. Please make sure you have libinput installed and also xf86-input-libinput.
Waiting on your response.
Comment by Samantha McVey (samcv) - Sunday, 26 June 2016, 08:37 GMT
I don't think this is a bug, xf86-input-libinput and libinput need to be installed for mice to work in GDM, Wayland is the default system for GDM 3.16 which the reporter said the problem started with. This should probably be closed.

In case the reporter *is* still around you can see how to disable using Wayland for GDM completely if installing libinput etc does not work for you:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Use_Xorg_backend

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