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KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland - tablet pen suddenly not changing pointer position

Symptoms

Stylus taps are registered as well as button presses (on the last cursor position). Cursor doesn't change position."Test tablet" in "Drwaing Tablet" KDE settings only displays Stylus release events.X11 works.Finger touch still works.

Solution

Rename or delete ~/.config/kcminputrc, or remove config section related to "Pen" (not tested). Deleting the config resets other mouse pointer settings like speed, device enabled/disabled and calibrations.Then log out and log back in.

Precursor

Testing pen in "Test tablet" section.

Other attempted fixes

Log out and back in - FailReboot - FailMoving cursor on login screen and during login process - FailInsert and remove pen again - FailShutdown and disconnect battery (in UEFI) - FailRemoving kcminputrc after diffing with Timeshift snapshot and filtering for interesting files with grep - Pass

System info

OS: Arch Linux x64Host: Lenovo ThinkPad L390 YogaKernel: 6.12.30-1-ltsDE: Plasma 6.3.5Libinput: 1.28.1-1Last full system upgrade: 2025-05-28

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