Enable/disable touchpad

[Eric Griffith]

You have to use libinput at the moment for Wayland, gnome and KDE are both
transitioning to libinput. As far as configurability goes: its not meant to
be as configurable. Synaptics exposed every possible control knob, despite
the fact that some of them were completely untested / known to be broken.
AFAIK, libinput is going the route of "Sane defaults, expose what we know
works and what we actually support changing." Instead of "Change ALL THE
THINGS!"

Yes there's still some teething problems but those are being worked out.
Libinput's maintainer has been pretty good, I think anyway, about bug
reports and communicating reasons / thought processes on his blog.
On Aug 19, 2015 3:02 PM, "Adam Batkin" <adam at batkin.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Rajeesh K V <rajeeshknambiar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Fedora 22 uses the newer libinput touchpad driver, you can uninstall
> > it and install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics to configure as in Fedora 21.
>
> Do we know why this transition was made from xorg-x11-drv-synaptics to
> libinput? I've read from a number of users frustration over the fact
> that libinput doesn't provide the level of configurability that
> xorg-x11-drv-synaptics provided, which effectively makes using a
> touchpad an exercise in frustration. In other words, this is a serious
> regression. As an example, the KDE Settings contains many parameters,
> almost all of which are grayed out when running with libinput.
>
> -Adam Batkin
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