How to disable the mouse cursor when using dualsense touchpad?

Solution

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RealDishwash•1/19/24, 12:42 PM

nevermind, you can just disable the touchpad in kde plasma system settings

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:43 PM

make the file

/etc/udev/rules.d/72-ds4tm.rules

/etc/udev/rules.d/72-ds4tm.rules

/etc/udev/rules.d/72-ds4tm.rules

/etc/udev/rules.d/72-ds4tm.rules
put this inside it

# Disable DS4 touchpad acting as mouse
# USB
ATTRS{name}=="Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"
# Bluetooth
ATTRS{name}=="Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

# Disable DS4 touchpad acting as mouse
# USB
ATTRS{name}=="Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"
# Bluetooth
ATTRS{name}=="Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

# Disable DS4 touchpad acting as mouse
# USB
ATTRS{name}=="Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"
# Bluetooth
ATTRS{name}=="Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

# Disable DS4 touchpad acting as mouse
# USB
ATTRS{name}=="Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"
# Bluetooth
ATTRS{name}=="Wireless Controller Touchpad", ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

reload udev rules with

sudo udevadm control --reload

sudo udevadm control --reload

sudo udevadm control --reload

sudo udevadm control --reload
to manually trigger the rules

sudo udevadm trigger

sudo udevadm trigger

sudo udevadm trigger

sudo udevadm trigger

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:44 PM

you found the answer for kde while i was translating the archwiki guide for you

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:45 PM

lol yup

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:45 PM

i didn't think the kde settings would treat it as an actual touchpad

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:45 PM

pleasantly surprised

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:46 PM

same

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:46 PM

dont have a PS5 controller atm as i own a custom one but its in for repairs

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:47 PM

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:47 PM

oh neato

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:48 PM

i had an older xbox 1 controller but i swapped to the ds5 for the gyro

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:48 PM

helped with switch games

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:48 PM

not really but i needed an excuse

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RealDishwashOP•1/19/24, 12:48 PM

usb c is nice too

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:53 PM

yeah my issue was with the thumbsticks

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:56 PM

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:57 PM

thats how the full rotation of the sticks looked like

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HikariKnight•1/19/24, 12:57 PM

ignore the avg errors, its not important and has nothing to do with the issue

RRealDishwash Some playstation games i'm playing require using the touchpad to interact with p...

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Flancrest•6/12/25, 10:08 PM

I know it's been a bit since anyone has asked about this, but I ran into this problem on my laptop using GNOME. Since I'm on a laptop, simply disabling the touchpad via the settings menu is problematic for obvious reasons, so what I did was follow the instructions I found here.

What I did was create a shell script that toggles the touchpad on and off, and assigned it to a hotkey to easily run the script.

The script is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ $(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events) == "'enabled'" ]; then
    echo "Switching off"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events disabled
else
    echo "Switching on"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled
fi

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ $(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events) == "'enabled'" ]; then
    echo "Switching off"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events disabled
else
    echo "Switching on"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled
fi

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ $(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events) == "'enabled'" ]; then
    echo "Switching off"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events disabled
else
    echo "Switching on"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled
fi

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ $(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events) == "'enabled'" ]; then
    echo "Switching off"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events disabled
else
    echo "Switching on"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled
fi

Place this in a file in your home directory. Name it anything you want - I used
```
.toggle_touchpad.sh
```
.toggle_touchpad.sh
```
.toggle_touchpad.sh
```
.toggle_touchpad.sh
Make it executable:`chmod +x ~/toggle_touchpad.sh`
Go to the GNOME settings under `Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts` and create a new custom shortcut.Name: `Toggle Touchpad`Command `/home/flancrest/.toggle_touchpad.sh`Shortcut: `Insert` (you can set this to whatevver key combo you want to use)
Make sure to exit the custom shortcuts page before testing the hotkey. I almost drove myself crazy trying to test it before doing that. The setting doesn't actually get applied until you leave the page in the settings menu.

Now all I have to do is push the Insert button to toggle the touchpad on or off. Works great! I hope this helps someone else running into this issue

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