Turning off (just) my laptop touchscreen in wayland

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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So my daily driver is a dell laptop with a great build quality and a shitty touchscreen that freaks out at the slightest whiff of dust. I’ve had situations where working in a room near a fog machine set it off.

I usually just disabled it with xinput, but my distro uses wayland now, and i dont want to completely modprobe out usbhid to stop it from making my laptop intermittently unuseable.

I know the compositor controls input in wayland but budgie doesn’t have touch settings. Anyone know a way I can disable the touchscreen without completely disabling.the usbhid driver?

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What model laptop? Some dells allow it to be disabled in the bios.

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Its an older latitude, and yeah thats the first thing i checked. (im on mobile atm so i cant check the exacr model #, but it hasnt gotten a bios update since feb. Of last year and it doesnt have the option)

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bump. there’s got to be a way to do this. wayland can’t be designed this poorly.

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come on yall theres gotta be a way to do this

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I want to help you, I just don’t know how :frowning:

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I’ve been scouring for a solution and it looks like if your compositor doesn’t have an option for it, there’s no way to interface with the input.

on a related note: Y’all wanna start a patreon to pay distros not to use wayland?