Wacom disable touch udev rules on wayland via FAQ page disables all input

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Hello! I am attempting to setup my Wacom Intuos Pro PTH-651/K on my Fedora 41 Wayland KDE Plasma 6 machine. I’ve been following this: FAQ page, in addition to this Ignoring Specific Devices page - which says to create a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/
I have done sudo libinput list-devices and found that “Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger” is /dev/input/event11, and then done sudo libinput list-kernel-devices --hid and found the id ‘056a:0315’ that has the evdev: [/dev/input/event11]

So, this means AFAIK the udev rule should be:
ACTION!="remove",KERNEL=="event[0-9*]", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="056a", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="0315", ENV{ID_INPUT_TOUCHPAD}=="1" ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

which is as I understand it…make an action, when not removing the device, filtered by: kernel event any number, that the device matches my Wacom Model, for any touchpad event, libinput should ignore the device.

However…saving this and rebooting, makes no inputs work, and i have to ssh into the machine to comment out the rule to get back in. As far as I can see I’m following those two pages properly, so I don’t know why that would be happening? Any help would be appreciated.

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Lets back up a little bit. What are you trying to do and what is not working? (Before doing any workarounds).

Generally wacom tablets should just work without any workarounds.

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I’m trying to disable the touch input of the wacom device so it only responds to the pen.

The KDE Settings GUI panel’s ‘Drawing Tablet’ section doesn’t have an option for this. According to the Linux Wacom Project’s section for Wayland’s FAQ, since Wayland uses libinput instead of X11, this should be done with udev rules, and they give those examples .

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CC: @redstrate (maybe you know, my tablet has no touch)

Can this be handled by udev rules or does that setting need to be exposed by the KCM to work?

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If you want to disable a touch screen, you should be able to do that in the touchscreen settings page.

It won’t appear in the graphics tablet settings, even if it’s the same physical device.

Edit: oh, touchpad. Still, the same thing applies there too.

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Ahhh, it’s showing under Mouse and Touchpad yep. Not under Touchscreen, interesting. Looks like just unchecking ‘Device enabled’ on the Mouse and Touchpad screen solved it. Thank you!

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To add onto this, it would be nice to “expose” this in the Tablet KCM but that should probably come once we figured out how to easily link between them instead of carving out something specific.