I'm experiencing some weird ghost touch problems with the touchpad on my Dell Latitude 7490, which has an Intel i5 8th gen processor and 8GB of RAM. This issue only appears when I'm using Fedora. Initially, everything works fine for a couple of days after installation, but then the touchpad starts clicking randomly wherever I move the cursor. I've tested other Linux distros like Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint (which is my current daily driver), and I haven't encountered this problem at all with those systems. Has anyone else faced a similar issue on Fedora?
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Are you using Wayland? It’s possible that the other distributions you tried are using X11 instead of Wayland. If that's the case, you can check your touchpad settings using the command `xinput list`, which will show you the device number, and then `xinput list-props #` to adjust things like sensitivity and palm detection. I've heard that Wayland may not support these commands as well as X11 does, which could be part of the issue.
Yeah, you're right about Wayland using libinput. My daily driver, Linux Mint, uses X11, so it makes sense that you're running into touchpad issues on Wayland. If the problem is persistent, you might want to explore switching to X11 on Fedora or looking for specific settings in libinput that could help.