Using a Stylus Pen with Wayland means mouse events get ignored

Bug reports
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Steps to reproduce

  1. Click text editor with a stylus pen
  2. Left or Right click anywhere in Obsidian with mouse cursor or touchpad (nothing happens, bug)
  3. Focus another Window and then Obsidian again (now mouse works again)
  4. Click text editor with stylus pen again
  5. Scroll using touchpad, obsidian freezes and needs to be terminated (scrolling with external mouse works fine, so does scrolling with touchpad before a stylus was used)

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

When using a stylus together with a stylus pen together with a mouse or touchpad, both input methods register correctly and obsidian never crashes.
Hovering over text with the cursor shows the ‘Beam’.

Actual result

After using the stylus pen, obsidian does not register mouse and touchpad clicks anymore.
Scrolling sometimes crashes obsidian after a stylus was used.
Hovering over text with the cursor shows the default cursor.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.11.5
Installer version: v1.11.5
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:34:07 +0000 6.18.6-arch1-1
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

This bug was not present before the last update I did (so it was probably introduced in 1.11.x)
As this bug is hardware related and may be specific to a driver, device or os details, here is everything about my system that may help with identifying the issue

  • PC: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ALC7
    • Touchpad: Synaptics SYNA2BA6:00 06CB:CE78 Touchpad
    • Stylus: IdeaPad Flex 5-14ALC7 (82R9) original Digital Pen 2 (Device: Wacom HID 52C9 Pen)
  • System Arch Linux
    • Kernel: 6.18.6-arch1-1 (64-bit)
    • KDE Plasma 6.5.5
    • Bug only occurs in Wayland session
    • libinput 1.30.1-1
  • Obsidian: 1.11.5, bug occurs both with AppImage and pacman package
    • User agent with pacman: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) obsidian/1.11.5 Chrome/142.0.7444.235 Electron/39.2.7 Safari/537.36
    • User agent with AppImage: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) obsidian/1.11.5 Chrome/142.0.7444.226 Electron/39.2.6 Safari/537.36

I also tested if discord has the same bug, it doesnt. But this doesnt entirely rule out that the issue comes from electron, as discord doesnt use the newest electron versions afaik.
Here is the useragent of the earlier version that does not have the described bugs:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) obsidian/1.10.6 Chrome/138.0.7204.251 Electron/37.10.2 Safari/537.36

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Hi! I am experiencing the same. Obsidian 1.11.5

Also using under wayland on arch. Was super excited to see the update on native wayland support in these january updates.

I’d like to add that after using the stylus (I’m using a huion pen tablet) and the mouse stops registering clicks, I can still use the pen, and continue using hotkeys. It’s just that my click’s on the mouse won’t register until i unfocus/refocus again.

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Glad to know I’m not alone. Experiencing the same issue, would be happy to provide any info to help sort this out. I’m on an Asus ROG GZ301ZE running CachyOS, using a MetaPen M3 Pro.

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Made an account just to say I’m also experiencing this issue. FWIW:

  • Obsidian v1.12.4 (pacman)
  • Tablet: One by Wacom M (CTL-672)
  • $ uname -r: 6.18.13-arch1-1

Happy to provide any further info.