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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How do I enable my synaptics trackpad?
When I booted 11.10 from the Install CD, everything worked fine.
However, once I installed Ubuntu, my trackpad stopped working - does anyone know why this is so?
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MacBook Pro Touchpad Optimization 12.04 LTS
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a MacBook Pro 5.5. I'm just wondering if there is something that takes all the kinks out of the touch-pad. It works good, but it feels sluggish, double tap works about ...
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Synaptics Touchpad problem when disabling it and then enabling it
My girlfriend has an HP dv6000. In ubuntu 10.10 32bit i use the synaptics on it and all is good but when i disable it and enable it the problem starts. When booting the problem was that the synaptics ...
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Sometimes keyboard & touchpad work… sometimes not [closed]
When I first ran Ubuntu from CD on this Dell Inspiron 2650, it worked for about ten to fifteen minutes, then it hung (I was probably trying to do too much at once from a Live CD). The next time, my ...
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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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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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Touchpad twitchy on an HP G62 with a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad [closed]
I experience some problems with my touchpad on Ubuntu 12.04.
Everytime I tap/double tap the touchpad the cursor is moving around (not static as should be) (for example if I want to close a window, I ...
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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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How do I restore two finger middle click again?
it used to be that tapping two fingers on the touchpad send a middle mouse click. Now it does a right click and three fingers now are the middle click. I really can't understand the change and think ...
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Are there other gestures for the Synaptics Touchpad besides two-finger scrolling?
I have a Synaptics Touchpad on my Dell XPS 14z and I was wondering if there was any way I could enable some gestures besides two-finger scrolling.
Are there any special drivers i need?
I've read ...
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How to edit synaptics configuration? xorg.conf way doesen't work
I need to bind the TapButton3 as central mouse button so i do:
synclient TapButton3=2
it works great but when i restart or wake up from suspension it forgets the setting.
i know that i have to ...
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How to Disable touchpad while typing on Aspire One
I want to disable the touchpad while I type on my Aspire one netbook. If I issue the command syndaemon the synaptics driver is not detected:
Unable to find a synaptics device
So, I added the ...
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Change touchpad horizontal and vertical acceleration/sensitivity?
How do I individually change the horizontal and vertical acceleration of the cursor? I can scroll side-to-side in a single stroke on a 1600x900 monitor on my laptop, but I can never do that ...
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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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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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Toggle synaptic touchpad with double tap on a corner
I've got a new HP G42 and it features a led indicator on the touchpad's top left corner and (in windows, with the vendor's driver) it allowed me to tap twice in that corenr to toggle the touchpad and ...
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Disable touchpad hardware buttons
I'd like to disable hardware buttons on the synaptic touchpad, but still be able to use the touchpand and "tap"-click on its surface. I don't find the related options in the output of synclient -l.
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Synaptics touch pad disable button not functional
I have a Compaq Presario CQ60-307EA Laptop which has the Synaptics touchpad. It works fine, but one thing that's never worked is the disable button above it, which should completely turn off the ...
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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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Touchpad palm sensitivity [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable touchpad tapping when typing on keyboard?
I'm using (K)ubuntu 12.04 LTS with a Synaptics touchpad. The palm sensitivity it terrible, whenever I'm typing ...
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How to edit Synaptics Touchpad values in Ubuntu 12.04? No xorg.conf file!
After I installed Ubuntu 12.04 got some issues with my touchpad.
I reported the problem and finally today a guy replied here - ...
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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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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 ...
