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tribbloid
Asked: 2016-09-24 12:11:11 +0800 CST

Touchpad device has a malformed name (tab character included), how to fix it?

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My touchpad can be detected as a USB device,

$ lsusb | grep touchpad
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 06cb:2970 Synaptics, Inc. touchpad

But when it is queried by xinput or libinput-list-devices, it has a strange device name:

$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳     Touchpad                              id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
...

The tab prefix of Touchpad is preventing many touchpad configuration tools from finding it (e.g. KDE system settings). How do I manually correct it?

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