I have come across an issue with clicking and dragging on my Lenovo L380 laptop. On a fresh install or using the Live CD/USB I am able to physically click the touchpad with one finger and then drag with another finger to do a selection. Though immediately after doing an apt upgrade and a reboot on the laptop that functionality ceases. I can no longer move the mouse with the second finger after clicking down on the touchpad with the first finger. I presume something with the mouse/input was updated but I cannot figure out what was changed or how to change it back. It occurs using for X11 and Wayland after the upgrade, it works before upgrading in X11 (I did not test to see if it worked in Wayland before the upgrade).

Has anyone else run into this and if so, how did you fix it?

Thanks for your help!

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Try this Open the terminal and run this command you will be prompted to the text editor.

sudo -H gedit /etc/default/grub

Here you have to replace

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quit splash" 

with

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quit splash i8042.nopnp"

And reboot your system it will probably start working.

Hope it Helps.

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