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 v7.4 cannot move while pressing a key?
My Synaptics Touchpad v7.4 won't move when I'm using my arrow keys. Everywhere I've looked on the internet is telling me to go to
Device Pointer Properties > Settings > Pointing > Sensitivity > Palm ...
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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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How do disable tap-to-click while typing?
Running Kubuntu 12.4 on a Thinkpad 410S.
I'm hoping to disable the tap-to-click mechanisms while I am typing, similar to what I can do in windows. So far I have only been able to figure out how 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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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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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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Touchpad does not work on Acer Aspire V5-121, on
I recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my new Acer Aspire V5-121 Netbook. The first thing I noticed was that the touchpad does not work. It does not recognize clicks or touches. How do I find out what's ...
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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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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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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 ...
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touchpad is not working in acer aspiron oneD260
I am using ubuntu 12.04. touch pad is not detecting in my netbook. sometimes it is detected and work properly. I try to find list of input device using xinput command.it will not shows the touch ...
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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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Gnome touchpad control vs. synaptics
There are several settings (speed, sensitivity, acceleration, tap-to-click) that seem to be independently managed between
the built-in gnome Mouse and Touchpad configuration tool and
synclient ...
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Adding 'tap zones' to Synaptics touch pad?
In Windows I can configure the corners of my touchpad to act as another button or control. For example, I use the top left as a "middle click" and the bottom left as "mute".
I have searched around ...
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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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Synaptics Touchpad : solving 2 finger problem triggered by resting palm
My laptop is: "Lenovo G580" and it comes with a very sensitive touchpad. Specially, when I place my hands comfortably to type, it "thinks" I'm touching the top-left corner. This becomes really ...
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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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ThinkPad X1 Carbon PalmDetect fail
We can see that w (width of finger) is always. Do the PalmDetect actually does not work.
ubunto 12.10. synclient 1.6.2
:~$ synclient| grep Palm
PalmDetect = 1
PalmMinWidth = ...
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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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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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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 settings not available acer aspire V3-771G
I have a brand new laptop, with xubuntu and i can't find the touchpad settings. In the mouse settings menu, there's only a mouse tab and i can't set the side scroll or disable touchpad when typing.
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Ubuntu is responding to mouse clicks, but not movement
Yesterday, I started having a problem in my 12.04 installation where my cursor was huge. I tried changing the cursor theme in dconf-editor, but that didn't fix it after a reboot, so I decided to just ...
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How do I load the synaptics driver on 12.04? (Scrolling does not work)
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my new Lenovo z580 laptop. The touchpad maker is Synaptics. However Ubuntu is unable to load the Synaptics driver, although the driver has been installed. Due to this, ...
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Touchpad Havoc: Extra Clicks, Single Clicks Held Too Long, Touchpad Registers Right-Clicks
For some time -- a few versions, going back to at least 10.04 -- I've had some maddening issues with my synaptics touchpad. At seeming random moments, but most definitely after coming out of a blank ...
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How to diagnose SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad?
Today the TouchPad on my Samsung 900X3A laptop started misbehaving for the first time ever. It'll work perfectly for a few seconds, then one of the following happens for a while:
Behaves as if I was ...
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how to use circular scrolling using synaptics touchpad
I have used that feature in windows and I have always wanted to try that feature on this ubuntu raring.Using gsynaptics doesn't work it shows grey or deactivated buttons on circular scrolling.
Is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Touchpad cursor inertia
When using my synaptics touchpad on Windows, the driver has the option of giving the cursor inertia (note, not just the scrolling).
I found it a lot less straining to use the touchpad with this ...
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Lenovo Z480 with 12.04 touchpad right click not working
I've spent quite some time working on this and so far I've found some workarounds but no true solution. (I originally included several links for reference, but since I'm new I quickly found out that ...
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Clickpad trouble - pointer moves and releasing the click accepts selection
The clickpad on my Macbook seems too sensitive under Ubuntu. This really becomes an issue when I'm trying to right click. The behavior I'm seeing is that when I click with 2 fingers (physical click, ...
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Touchpad not detected on ThinkPad E530
I have ubuntu 12.10 on ThinkPad Edge E530. I guess it has Synaptics touchpad, but it's not detected at all.
Tried xinput:
~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master ...
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Touchpad not showing up in xinput list
the touchpad on my Compaq Presario isn't showing up in xinput list, and isn't working. There's no fn button to disable/enable it, although there is a button above it to do that, which says it's ...
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Right mouse button doesnt work on a Lenovo Ideapad Y580
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my new Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 M772DGE.
Unfortunately the right mouse button is not working correctly. Every mouse button click is interpreted as a left mouse button ...
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Why isn't my touchpad behaving like said in synclient?
I use a small skript to get my touchpad doing what it should:
synclient LockedDrags=1 PalmDetect=1 PalmMinWidth=200 RightEdge=5340 VertTwoFingerScroll=1 HorizTwoFingerScroll=0 VertEdgeScroll=0 ...
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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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How to Fix Scrolling with Middle Mouse Button on Synaptics Touchpad?
The Middle button on Synaptics touchpad should scroll, but it doesn't in my case. Here is the output of "xinput list" command:
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (117): 1
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