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[SOLVED] Libinput does not work as expected on wayland

See original GitHub issue

The issue:

Libinput is not working as expected for qtile (no issues on manjaro-gnome-liveusb). I expected e.g. my touchpad to work (enabling tap), but nothing happened and defaults were loaded. I think this is a bug.

The bug / logs:

In the tty after closing qtile (not in the qtile log) I can see the same as in this discussion as the very first message libinput error: failed to load the device quirks from /usr/share/libinput and /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks. However my qtile starts normally and everything else works.
in the qtile log there is a relevant line: ERROR libqtile inputs.py:_configure_pointer():L251 Qtile was not built with libinput configuration support. For support, pywlroots must be installed at build time.

What I did (reproducability):

installed from source (pip install --user .) following the correct order of package installs and running make run-ffibuild after installing dependencies and before pip install
default config

I have no idea what is wrong and where this issue even originates (my debugging efforts were fruitless, nothing in pywlroots or pywayland). Any help is welcome.

System Details

Asus Vivobook M4103QA
Linux: 5.15.59-gentoo-dist
qtile version: 0.21.1.dev87+g2ecbb5fd
wlroots: 0.15.1
pywlroots: 0.15.19
cairocffi: 1.3.0
cffi: 1.15.1
xcffib: 0.11.1

Required:

I have searched past issues to see if this bug has already been reported.

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Created a year ago
Comments:15 (5 by maintainers)

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2reactions

oddlamacommented, Aug 11, 2022

@clotodex Maybe try to link libinput in the same way? Maybe more libs are broken.

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Magnitudexxcommented, Nov 24, 2022

@clotodex i indeed have all those installed

EDIT: wlroots package on arch is out of date

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