I just wanted to share advice for anyone finding this thread on the desktop image who actually WANTS to enable the touchpad as a mouse:
As mentioned above, ds-inhibit is the culprit. So to disable it:
- Disable the systemd service:
sudo systemctl disable --now ds-inhibit.service - Optionally mask the service to prevent it from being automatically enabled again:
sudo systemctl mask ds-inhibit.service
Apologies to bump an old thread, if this is poor etiquette and I should share this info somewhere else I’d be glad to, just let me know where.