I don’t need anything special or pricey, just a basic controller that does basic controller things.

I’ve tried a few generic controllers, but they have issues with bluetooth, battery life, and automatically shutting off too early from idling.

Does anyone know of any generic controllers that don’t have these issues? I don’t mind if the battery life isn’t the same or better than official controllers, but they shouldn’t straight up lie about the capacity. It should be illegal.

  • Count Regal InkwellEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Yes and no

    I know how to turn it off on KDE Plasma Wayland which is the DE I use. Different WMs and DEs will do it differently. X11 will do it differently. I’m sure it can be done, I just have no idea how.

    With the controller connected, Plasma-Wayland reports the touchpad as like. A laptop touchpad. So you can shut it off by just going into its settings programme and turning it off like you would a laptop touchpad.

    … Unless of course you ARE using a laptop, at which point that would possibly turn off both your laptop’s actual touchpad as well as the one in the DS4.

    • commander@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      Thanks for the advice.

      I’m using KDE with X11 on a laptop, so it’s probably not so easy for me to turn it of 🙁

      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Why are you using X11 on Plasma? Wayland support has been great for a long time on Plasma and they’re working towards deprecating X11.

      • IceFoxX@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Disable_touchpad_acting_as_mouse
        and

        • xorg.conf entries
        Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "joystick catchall"
        MatchIsJoystick "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "joystick"
        Option "StartKeysEnabled" "off" # Disable mouse support of joypad 
        Option "StartMouseEnabled" "off"
EndSection

        "You’d need to replace/add the MatchProduct directive in your xorg config file with something like this to disable the touchpad:

        MatchProduct "Wireless"
MatchProduct "Controller|Adaptor"
MatchProduct "Touchpad"