Hello,
the following script

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#!/bin/sh
exec "/home/mr/dotfiles/disable_trackpad.sh"


placed in

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~/.config/autostart/disable_trackpad

Is not run.

The other one has code to disable the trackpad

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

xinput set-prop 11 'Device Enabled' 0
exit 0


Can someone explain as to why? It drives me nuts. If I manually run the command or the script it disables the trackpad but the script does not run on startup to do it automatically.

you can disable trackpad when mouse is plugged in in systemsettings

no idea 'cause I don't write scripts, but:

1) I would have the 2nd script write a time stamp to file just to make sure it ran (or some other confirmation)
2) I would try sh instead of exec (and no I don't know the diff)
3) I would use /bin/sh instead of /bin/exec is both (again don't know the diff)
3) I would put everything in 1 script
4) I would add a sleep just in case there was a timing issue

yeah I tend to throw thing against the wall to see what sticks , maybe someone will have an actual idea

The autostart folder is for desktop services (*.desktop files), scripts are sourced from ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/ (NOTICE that there's bee a bug in startkde that broke this and was at least released by ubuntu somewhen (bug story: https://bugs.kde.org/352491, first commit broke sourcing, second fixed it)

Thanks for the replies I will try these and report back when/if fixed.