# Settings says "No touchpad found" **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** neon\ **Created:** [April 16, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139 "2024-04-16T14:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rbits](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/rbits/32/2620_2.png) [@rbits](https://discuss.kde.org/u/rbits)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139/1 "2024-04-16T14:20:47Z")
I recently installed Plasma 6, and the system settings are now saying “No touchpad found” in the touchpad section. The touchpad still works, but I can’t change any settings. The update also seems to have disabled 3 finger middle click, and this means I can’t enable it. Does anyone have a fix? KDE Neon 6.0 (Plasma 6.0.3) X11 ---
**Author:** ![jpetso](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/jpetso/32/2064_2.png) [@jpetso](https://discuss.kde.org/u/jpetso)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139/2 "2024-04-17T05:58:43Z")
That sounds to me like the X11 input driver is still using synaptics or evdev for the touchpad, as opposed to libinput. Plasma 6 removed settings backends for drivers other than libinput. The synaptics driver is long unmaintained, was a technological dead end, and made any feature work on mouse & touchpad settings a giant pain. The evdev driver provides only barebone functionality and libinput builds on top of it to do a better job. On my old Arch setup, I had to install the `xf86-input-libinput` package for the libinput-based X11 driver. And I also had to take out the global config file from `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/` that assigned the synaptics driver instead of the libinput default that got assigned in the pre-installed `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf`. Not sure what the situation looks like on Neon, probably somewhat similar but a little different. ---
**Author:** ![rbits](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/rbits/32/2620_2.png) [@rbits](https://discuss.kde.org/u/rbits)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139/3 "2024-04-23T06:14:42Z")
The only file I have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d is 00-keyboard.conf. I dont have a file for libinput. Also what would the equivalent package be fore Ubuntu based distros? I have libinput-bin, libinput-dev, libinput10, and xserver-xorg-input-libinput already. ---
**Author:** ![kiemlo](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@kiemlo](https://discuss.kde.org/u/kiemlo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139/4 "2024-04-23T14:04:29Z")
Remove the `xserver-xorg-input-synaptics` package and restart X. Libinput will then take over handling of the touchpad settings. ---
**Author:** ![joao](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/joao/32/10467_2.png) [@joao](https://discuss.kde.org/u/joao)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139/5 "2024-05-15T18:52:15Z")
I just updated pacman and it got plasma 6 updated as well and this problem occurred. Weird it only malfunctioned in X11, but not Wayland. Anyway, in X11, @kiemlo’s response was half the solution, I didn’t have xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package installed, but uninstalling `xf86-input-synaptics` and then restarting X server with `sudo systemctl restart display-manager` made it. Just leaving this here in case anyone has the same case. ---
**Author:** ![sergiomb](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sergiomb](https://discuss.kde.org/u/sergiomb)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/settings-says-no-touchpad-found/14139/6 "2025-05-18T08:10:19Z")
Fedora rename the package to xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy after remove it X11 detect my touchpad dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy-1.9.2-6.fc41.x86\_64