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Touchpad issues; abandon Linux? abandon Plasma?

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josephn
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Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.11-200.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 20THCTO1WW
System Version: ThinkPad P1 Gen 3

I upgrade/update every week. For the past three or four weeks--not certain when the trouble began--my touchpad hasn't worked well. One-tap clicking rarely works. When I've followed odd directions from the web that make it work, the functionality never sticks. Plus the touchpad often requires excess gestures, as if there's a sync issue between my fingers and the cursor (the cursor moves less than it should). I need one-tap clicking and reliable touchpad action, and this computer is too new to abandon. So I'm left with the choices of abandoning Plasma for Gnome, which I do not really want to do and have no idea whether it would fix the issues; or abandoning Linux for Windows, which would solve another problem, too (remote computer cannot receive sound from local microphone through X11+KRDC (and Wayland won't reveal the remote taskbar)), but which would take a looong time to do.

Are there other options/remedies that I'm missing?


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jerry-kde
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I though that was weird, the touchpad tap not working. I could change it after installation but it was annoying during installation.

System settings has a nice search function but if you don't know how something is called (event, notification, sound, mute, alarm... ah! bell!) it is hard.

Going back to xfce, something I know better so I can find things more easily. And has week numbers in the clock! :D
dzon
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@Jerry. Yeah...that calendar doesn't show anything in kde :D https://imgur.com/a/yHsvA7X


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