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 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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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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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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“Disable touchpad button”: touchpad won't re-enable
My Acer Timeline has a "Disable touchpad button" which works too well. That is, once I've pressed it, pressing it again won't re-enable the touchpad. I've tried a couple of things like:
gconftool-2 ...
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Why does the “Mouse” preferences GUI not allow me to enable two-finger scrolling?
I know that my touchpad is capable of it. I can enable glitch-free two-finger scrolling by running this script:
#! /bin/sh
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient ...
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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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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 on my Acer 4530 stop working
i got my touchpad stop working after several hours being disabled (using Fn+F7 in my Acer 4530). i've tried many times to turn it on using the same key-combination (Fn+F7), although the touchpad ...
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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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How to disable Synaptics pinch-to-zoom support in evince (PDF viewer)?
My friend experiences this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/875359
But most of the time zoom is activated unintentionally when using two-fingers scrolling on a Synaptics ...
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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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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 use touch-gesture-recognition-stack on multitouch-enabled touchpads?
I currently have a Synaptics touchpad with only few classic multitouch features (2 finger scroll, right click). By installing the respective testing suite, I saw that it doesn't accept my touchpad as ...
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Grab Handles by Three-Finger Tap not working after upgrade to 12.04
I recently upgrade my Ubuntu installation from 11.10 to 12.04.
Before the upgrade I was able to use three-finger tapping to bring up the grab-handles. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Touchpad is weird after reboot from Windows
I'm dualbooting Ubuntu and Win7 (though I must admit I can count the number of times I've used Win7 during the last 6 months on one hand).
My laptop is a Acer TravelMate 8471.
One thing I noticed ...
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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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How do I enable SHMConfig?
I don't know how to enable SHMConfig on Ubuntu 12.04 so that I can run synclient -m 100 correctly.
I searched and solutions were with HAL daemon, but I don't have HAL, I think it was deprecated. ...
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How can I enable two-finger scrolling in Ubuntu 12.04?
I need help with getting two-finger scrolling to work in Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit.
It used to work in previous Ubuntu versions, so I know it can be done.
However the option to enable two-finger scrolling ...
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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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How can I prevent my cursor from moving when I am clicking the trackpad?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Macbook Pro. When I click the trackpad, it is always registered as a small mouse movement as well as a click, so it drags whatever I click on. has anybody else ...
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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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How can I have inertia scrolling for my touchpad? [closed]
I'd like to have inertia scrolling for my touchpad, how can I do this, thanks!
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Where can I download synaptics touchpad drivers? [closed]
Synaptics touchpad is not working on my friend's laptop.
Here is the result of xinput list:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/611380/
I think the touchpad is not detected at all, he's using the laptop ...
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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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Is it possible to set a defined area for multitouch gestures on an Synaptics touchpad?
I have a HP dm1z with one of those button-less click pads. I'm running Oneiric beta, and the multitouch functionality works - I'm able to two finger scroll and move windows with a 3 finger gesture. ...
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Mouse wheel on Dell Vostro V13
I have a Dell Vostro V13, which Canonical claim is "Certified" for Ubuntu. So it surprises me that the synaptics trackpad isn't recognised as such and defaults to psmouse emulation. This means no ...
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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 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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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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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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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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How can I port packages from OpenSuSE to Ubuntu?
My question stems from the fact that I could use my Synaptics Clickpad perfectly in OpenSuSE, but cannot in Ubuntu 12.04. Earlier versions also had problems.
I got the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two-finger scroll not working in some apps
Starting yesterday the two-finger scroll on my laptop seems to be acting up. It works perfectly in almost everything, except gedit and nautilus. I wasn't able to find any reference to this issue, ...
