Synaptics Touchpad is a utility for configuring multitouch on laptop touchpads. Not to be confused with the Synaptic Package Manager, for which the "synaptic" tag should be used instead.
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Synaptics Touchpad - cursor moves around when just 'tapped' after Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade
After upgrading to version 12.04 LTS I experience some problems with my touchpad. Everytime I tap on the touch the cursor is moving around (for example if I want to close a window, I click on "x" ...
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Enabling wheel emulation on Thinkpad Helix (clickpad)
I'm trying to enable wheel emulation on my Thinkpad Helix. The touchpad is button-less (a click-pad).
This is my synaptics configuration:
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "ClickPad" ...
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[mouse]where synaptic touchpad settings in user account?
I have some trouble with my "synaptics touchpad"
The touchpad is one of those that use the psmouse kernel module (i.e. modprobe psmouse will get the pad to work [mouse moves] and modprobe -r psmouse ...
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Synaptics touchpad pressure monitoring? (SHM no longer seems to exists)
I'm thinking of making an application that uses the pressure information from a Synaptics touchpad. It used to be that you could at least monitor this using synclient -m [interval], but from my ...
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Synaptics Touchpad cannot move while pressing a key? V 8.1
my Synaptics touchpad refuses to move anytime I am pressing a key on the keyboard. I've looked everywhere on the internet telling me to go to Device Pointer Properties, then Settings, then Pointing, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Toshiba touchpad not working
I have a Toshiba Satellite T130-10G laptop and I can't get my touchpad to work in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (I have tried also 12.10 and did not work either).
In the same laptop I have Windows 7 installed and ...
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mouse and touchpad has limited settings
I am trying to alter the speed of the pointer when I use a the touchpad.
$ xinput list
displays:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST ...
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Synaptics touchpad sensitivity. Issue?
Just installed 12.04 LTS and I experience some problems with my touchpad. Everytime I tap/double tap the touch the cursor is moving around (not static as should be) (for example if I want to close a ...
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Lenovo Ideapad P500 - Touchpad Issues
The touchpad on my Lenovo Ideapad P500 only works occasionally, and when it does work it usually stops unexpectedly after a couple minutes of use.
When it does occasionally work, xinput -list outputs
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Dell Inspiron n5110 touchpad stop working after upgrate to 13.04
I've recently upgraded to 13.04 and touchpad partially stop working on my Dell Inspiron n5110.
The left and right buttons still working but motions and taps don't.
The system does detect my touchpad
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50-synaptics.conf options not working
How does Ubuntu come up with the default synaptics settings? I've got Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 installed on an Eeepc 900. Out of the box TapButton2 was set to 3, and TapButton3 was set to 2.
I have ...
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Synaptics Touchpad is not working on ubuntu 12.04
My touchpad wasn't working and I found that code,
sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
But now, when I close and open touchpad from disable/enable button, the ...
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Problem with Touchpad scroll
I've installed Virtually Ubuntu 12.10 on my Toshiba laptop with Vmware 9.0
it works good, but my Touchpad scrolling doesn't work anymore
My Question is:
Where I can download a driver for my ...
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There is no two finger scroll option in my “Mouse and Touchpad” settings
I've been scouring forums over the interwebs for several months now and I can't seem to find anyone with my problem. I simply do not have the option for "two-finger scrolling" available in my "Mouse ...
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My TouchPad is not responding on an Acer Aspire E1-471-6650
I recently bought an Acer Aspire E1-471-6650 and I already have problems. First, when I tried to use the touchpad on a LiveCD, it wasn't responding. When I installed it in my notebook, it wasn't ...
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How do I fix dead Synaptics ClickPad on Ubuntu 12.10 + Toshiba P850
I've recently purchased a Toshiba Laptop having Windows 8 installed. After successfully dual booting in this EFI madness Win8/Ubuntu 12.10 I am at a loss as to how to enable the touch pad in Ubuntu ...
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Touchpad in Sony Vaio E14 - cannot click with a finger and drag with another - Ubuntu 12.04
I had the following issues with my Sony Vaio E14115's touchpad on Ubuntu 12.04:
Right click not working
Vertical scrolling not working
Then I followed these steps to fix it:
Downloaded a ...
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multitouch gestures
I wanted to know how I could configure multi-touch gestures in Ubuntu. In windows I can do this using the synaptics driver software.
I have already used synclient to configure the taps, palmdetect, ...
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Where to configure synaptics touchpad to use inverted two finger scrolling?
I want to configure my synaptics touchpad to user inverted scrolling with two fingers.
Where to configure synaptics for this in Ubuntu 12.04?
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HP DV6 ClickPad not working properly
In total, I think wasted 6-8 hours trying to make the ClickPad work properly.
Goals:
*Get fully recognized by Ubuntu
*Two finger scrolling/Side panel scrolling
*Change sensitivity (not ...
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Better driver for synaptics touchpads
If any of you have a dual-partitioned machine running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 (or 12.04), you probably know that the touchpad drivers in Ubuntu are pretty terrible compared to Windows. This is ...
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(thinkpad t400) Two-finger scroll stops working after reboot
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and I really want to use two-finger scrolling on the Synaptics TouchPad.
I can't activate it in the System Preferences because the checkbox is disabled. Finally I managed to ...
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Ubuntu completly ignores my xorg.d settings
I've talked about my laptop's touchpad elsewhere...
Given its touchpad position and configuration you trigger the secondary and terciary click while typing as they are bound to the Left Top and ...
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How to lock touchpad while typing
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Inspiron N5110. As the touch pad is a bit large in this model it’s frequently getting in my way while typing. Although I try my best to not touch it, the cursor ...
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Synaptics mousepad does not work properly after update
Ever since I updated my system on 11.09. my mousepad hasn't been working properly. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.6.2-1ubuntu1~precise1 has been replaced by xserver-xorg-input-synaptics ...
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Calibrating Clickpad
I just installed and set up Ubuntu 12.10 on my new Lenovo S206 with a Synaptics Clickpad. The problem is that clicking makes the cursor jump which is quite annoying at times. So I checked the fora for ...
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Touchpad tab is missing but ubuntu detects
i have installed ubuntu 12.04 but when i got to mouse settings, touchpad tab is missing. Ubuntu detects it.
shahzeb@shahzeb-laptop:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 ...
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How to add a synclient command to rc.local?
If I just put synclient string=value in rc.local it doesn't work. Do I need an echo to someplace or is rc.local not the place to do this?
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What's the recommended way to configure a Synaptics touchpad device?
I want to increase the scroll area by moving the so-called RightEdge a bit towards the middle. Right now I'm doing this via a one-liner that's called at session start (added via ...
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Synaptics Touchpad becomes unresponsive immediately after login
So, my touchpad works just fine when on login screen, but buttons and touchpad are completely unusable. Here's the kicker: the touchpad is NOT DISABLED. This occurred first after I locked the laptop ...
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Samsung QX410-j01 Touchpad is not working
I have been using Ubuntu on a Samsung QX410-j01 laptop for ~2 years (mostly v11.04). Yesterday, I upgraded to 11.10 and eventually to 12.04. Now, only the left click on the touchpad works. I cannot ...
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3 finger multitouch - Lenovo E530
i have started to try out some more from Ubuntu as dualboot on my laptop (Lenovo E530 with 640M). In Windows my touchpads gestures are working with three fingers to emulate back and forward (in a ...
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synaptics multitouch not working 12.04
I have a laptop (Acer 7745G) with a synaptics touchpad that should support up to 3 finger multitouch if I am interpreting the output of grep "TouchPad: buttons" /var/log/Xorg.0.log correctly. The ...
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HP G72-b50SQ How to On/Off TouchpadUbuntu 12.10
I am currently running Ubuntu 12.10 on a HP laptop G72 series (click here for more information about the machine).
The problem that I have is with the touchpad because I can not turn it Off nor On.
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Can't set synaptics “TapButton” options in 12.04 LTS
I have recently upgraded my netbook from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04 LTS. Since the upgrade - in fact, possibly since the upgrade to 11.10 - the system no longer registers touchpad taps as mouse clicks ...
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Natural scrolling not working for horizontal scroll, how to fix this?
I've enabled natural scrolling via Ubuntu Tweak's miscellaneous options, but that doesn't seem to take effect for horizontal scroll; neither in web browsers, nor in nautilus or other native ...
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How can I get the Touchpad menu to show on HP DV7?
I've done a clean install of 12.10 on an HP DV7. According to xinput I do have a PS/2 Synaptics Touchpad. It shows PS/2 Synaptics Touchpad at ID=11 and Virtual core XTEST pointer listed above it at ...
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Where to find synaptics mouspad gesture installation packages
I stumbled upon following web page and was immediately interested in the mousepad gesture possibilities. However I can't find any installation package (not in the software center, nor in synaptic). ...
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synaptics: No touchpad found
No touchpad found
No touchpad was found in this system. If the system has a touchpad,
please make sure that the synaptics driver is properly installed and
configured. If your touchpad is not ...
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Ubuntu isn't loading xorg.conf
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on my MacBook Pro, and I've been using synclient to get the trackpad settings how I want them. I created an xorg.conf in /etc/X11 to make the settings permanent:
Section ...
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Importing synaptics settings
I've got a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook which I've installed Ubuntu on. In Chrome OS the clickpad is working great but in ubuntu it hasn't got the same settings so I'm having problems with selcting ...
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Syanptics Touchpad Won't Re-enable
I disabled my Synaptics touchpad while a key on my keyboard and now I can't get it to work again. When I press that key again it says the touchpad turns back on but will not work at all. Rebooting ...
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How to get the touchpad working on Acer Extensa 5630 [closed]
The touchpad on my Acer Extensa 5630z does not work. It used to work fine in Windows 7, but it has not worked since the moment I installed Ubuntu. I've tried installing synaptics driver using this ...
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synaptics/synclient RBCornerButton=3 doesn't work, why?
When I set synclient RBCornerButton=3 it doesn't work.
I've checked with synclient -l if it's set and it looks OK.
What i want is to get right mouse button when i click in right/bottom touchpad area.
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Touchpad Toggle script at Startup?
I just got a new Notebook, Acer M3-481.
I installed Ubuntu 12.10
My touch-pad is turned off on default whenever I start Ubuntu. It is turned when I Press Fn+Alt+F7, and this works fine.
I would ...
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touchpad is not working in ubuntu12,04 on acer aspire one netbook(D260)
I installed ubuntu 12.04 os in my netbook acer aspire one(D260) machine. after installation touchpad is not working. i tried xinput -list command. but it is not detected. after read some blog post I ...
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Thinkpad touchpad behaves erratically after using synclient
I am on a fresh 12.10 install on a brand-new Lenovo Thinkpad X121e. The touchpad was already quite bad just after the installation, but now it is just too erratic to use...
Trying to move the mouse ...
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Synaptics touchpad moves a few dots when tapping
Normal mouse movement is fine but when I try to tap the touchpad the pointer often moves away a few dots. Which is kind of annoying, because sometimes the cursor ends up where its not supposed to be. ...
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Touchpad is recognized but not working on Toshiba P855-S5312 - Ubuntu 12.10
i just made a new fresh install of ubuntu 12.10, everything works nice but the touchpad istn working, it is recognized but it is not working, here a paste bin of what i get when I type "xinput list".
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Touchpad: how can I keep my palms touching the top corners from registering as a two-finger scroll?
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro, and when I'm typing my palms cover the upper corners of the touchpad, and frequently touch at the same time. It seems palm detection isn't working, or possibly a small ...
