Can anyone recommend generic controllers that work with Linux?
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 just use a Dualshock 4
It like.
Works. Linux games and Emulators recognise it as a generic SDL-compatible controller 99.9% of the time (and for that .1% there’s ds4drv in emulate-xpad mode). And Windows games on Proton use Steam Input which is not just functional, it even works with things like the motion sensors and shit.
Not much else I can say to it. It never gave me Bluetooth problems (and I use a generic bluetooth USB adaptor from China), its battery lasts long enough to not bother me, and it never shut off during a cutscene.
Thanks. I’ve been using generic DS4s but they all have some of the issues I’ve been describing.
Do you know how to turn off the touchpad? It just gets in the way for me.
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.
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 🙁
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Disable_touchpad…
"You’d need to replace the MatchProduct directive in your xorg config file with something like this to disable the touchpad:
MatchProduct "Wireless" MatchProduct "Controller|Adaptor" MatchProduct "Touchpad"
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