Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpad/trackpads.
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Touchpad doesn't respond when power is pluggged
Upon upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 through 12.04 on a Dell System, the touchpad doesn't respond until the power plug is unplugged. Any idea why? To better clarify the behaviour of the touchpad: The touch pad ...
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Touchpad disable after screen unlock
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had thought I had permanently
disabled the touch pad by
updating system settings to reflect my preferences
running a one time 'gsettings set ...
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How to save settings?
I am a complete newbie to Ubuntu. When I try to adjust my touchpad pointer speed, and quit, it does not save the changes. Is there a way I am supposed to save? Again, I am a complete noob. Did I do ...
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Laptop Touchpad Error
I'm currently running ubuntu 13.04, although i still had the issue with ubuntu 12.10. My touchpad keeps not responding to clicks, whether it is tapping the touchpad or clicking the button. If i leave ...
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2 finger scroll not working in unbuntu 12.04 hp pavilion m7
I have an HP Pavilion M7, running windows 7. I installed VM ware and setup unbunto 12.04 in a virutal machine, everything is working great except for the 2 finger scroll
i already looked at this ...
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No touchpad gestures on Samsung Series 9 / 13.04
I recently installed 13.04 and like many others, my touchpad gestures do not work. How can I troubleshoot this issue?
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Mouse not moving, but still clicks!
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Last night when I started my computer, I saw a strange screen telling me this:
The system is running in low-graphics mode
Your screen, graphics cards, and input device ...
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How can I setup my touchpad multi-finger tapping functionality?
I'm trying to setup my multi-finger tap in the following way:
Single finger - Left click
Two fingers - Middle click
Three fingers - Right click
What I currently have is:
Single finger - Left ...
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Touchpad and SD card reader are not being detected?
I am having issues with the touchpad and SD card reader being recognized in Ubuntu 13.04.
My laptop is a Samsung series 7 ultra (NP740U3E).
I'm fairly new to Ubuntu. Can someone please assist me?
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Problems with touchpad and keyboard
I have a Lenovo U410 and when I load the USB and I get to the: Try Ubuntu/Install Ubuntu section for Ubuntu 13.04, my keyboard and touchpad ceases to work.
My brightness button for instance, works ...
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touchpad not working after dual boot with windows 7
i have recently dual booted my machine (msi U180) with ubuntu and windows7 with ubuntu firstly installed.before dual boot my touchpad worked fine but after installed windows 7 on a partition my touch ...
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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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13.04 touch-pad does not work!
In Ubuntu 13.04 the touch-pad does not work! I can use the mouse with USB, but the touch-pad is unresponsive.
Is there any solution for this?
Thanks.
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lubuntu on Aspire One 725 without touchpad [duplicate]
I have just bought an 'ACER ASPIRE ONE 725-C7CBB 11.6'' AMD C-70 2GB 320GB RADEON HD7290 LINUX BLUE'. The net book had Linpus installed. I immediately installed lubuntu 13.04 from an external USB ...
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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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A pre-13.04 program/script/window-manager used to let me resize windows by triple touching a window
In a previous Ubuntu installation, there was a cool feature that let me use a three-finger touch to change the size of the active window. I don't remember the version of Ubuntu or the name of the ...
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Alps Touchpad too sensitive after upgrade
I tryed to switch to a new Ubuntu version, but my touchpad makes troubles.
I use a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop with an Alps touchpad.
Currently I'm on Ubuntu 11.10.
grep -B 5 mouse ...
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Mouse click no more responsive
I am happily using Ubuntu since the 11.04 release on a Dell Latitude E5530. Unfortunately since I bought this laptop I am encountering some troubles with the mouse (I guess related to the X server) ...
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How to Enable Two Tap For Right-Click using OpenBox on Xubuntu
## Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info.
if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 &
synclient TapButton1=1 &
In ...
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Disable touchpad switch application?
When i'm scrolling sometimes ubuntu will think i'm trying to switch applications. Is there a three finger application switching feature in ubuntu 13.04 that i don't know about? It sometimes also ...
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Multitouch doesn't work on touchpad on acer spire v3 771G
I was trying to install psmouse all day. I've found lots of tutorials but none work. For example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/681904/comments/64 in this I ...
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updated to ubuntu 13.04, 3 finger gestures are gone
Before Gnome3, Ubuntu emulated middle click with 3 fingers tap on the touchpad.
After Gnome3, it was used to drag windows (and maximize/restore). I missed the very useful middle click gesture, but at ...
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How to save Touchpad Pointer speed settings on Ubuntu 13.04?
Going to All Settings -> Mouse & Touchpad,
I try to set the "Pointer speed" at "Touchpad" options. That settings works fine at that screen and I can test the touchpad with the new settings, also I ...
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Ideapad z570 touchpad not working after kernel upgrade
This is probably a duplicate question but I'm not sure the other was answered and it was for a different machine.
I'm on 12.04 LTS and, after a recent update to kernel 3.5.0-31, the trackpad on my ...
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Mouse/Touchpad Settings for Samsung Series 9 in Ubuntu 13.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my Samsung Series 9, and I'm having trackpad issues. The community page for the series 9 indicates that the trackpad (including gestures, etc) works out of the box, ...
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Turn off trackpad scroll “momentum”
So when I flick my fingers while scrolling on my trackpad, the page continues to scroll even after my fingers have left it. I don't like this, however, because then when I switch to a different tab in ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 GNOME multi-touchpad gesture
My new Notebook (Asus Zenbook UX51VZ) support the multi touch gesture.
But i can't use in Ubuntu 13.04 GNOME. There are an app to enable and manage??? (3-4 fingers and switch from desktop or app)
I ...
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Touchpad scrolling not working, all set correctly in dconf editor, acer aspire V3 771G, Ubuntu 13.04
I've been through all the other similar posts I can find on this, and they suggest creating/editing files that seem to make no difference, sorry.
I have a new computer (Acer Aspire V3 771G) running ...
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keyboard and touchpad quit working
I have a serious problem with my ASUS 1005PX, running Ubuntu 13.04. The keyboard is very slow and working unreliable (e.g. input is 'jjjjj' if 'j' is input) and the touch-pad is dead. In the beginning ...
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Disable Touchpad While Typing does not work
I already checked that Option in the Settings but it won't work. I also searched for solutions in this site but none of those work. What should I do?
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Touchpad not working on Acer laptop
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 x64-amd on my Acer Aspire v3-471G laptop. The touchpad wasn`t working since I started the installation process from a USB flash device using Pen Drive and continue to be not ...
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'Synaptiks touch pad driver' is not automatically turning on at login
The option is checked within the program but it doesn't do so on startup! Manually opening it makes it spring to action immediately. Anyway to get around this problem?
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How to disable two-fingers/right-click in touchpad?
I would like to disable the function right-click when tapping the touchpad with two fingers, because it is always interfering with the two-fingers/scrolling function. I also would like to maintain the ...
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After logging, the touchpad stops working
I have a Dell latitude E6420 laptop. After logging in to my account, the touchpad doesn't work and the pointer is frozen. It only doesn't work for 1 account. The guest account is fine. Anyone know ...
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Synaptics Touchpad not working after a fresh install of 12.04.2 on a Toshiba P850 [closed]
I have read all related posts I can find but none of them offer a solution.
The touch-pad is detected but does not work. It works in Windows 8 (machine is dual boot)
$ egrep -i touchpad syslog
May ...
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Mouse moving and clicking on its own in 13.04
I recently upgraded from 12.10 where I had been having some mild touchpad problems. I'm running an Avatar Mercury ultrabook with an elantech touchpad which refuses to support multitouch under 12.10.
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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 and keyboard modules take too long to load after resume from sleep in Ubuntu 13.04
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed in my Sony Vaio, and I found that, after resumingfrom sleep, keyboard and mouse will not start after about 10 seconds. If I check dmesg I always find the following:
[ ...
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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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Touchpad settings not being applied - 13.04
In Ubuntu 13.04, any time I make adjustments to the sliders within the touchpad area of system settings, they don't seem to apply. If I exit and go back, all sliders are back to their default ...
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Mouse and Touchpad options
The Problem
The options for Mouse and Touchpad are combined on one page see image below
The pointer speed moves, but doesn't change anything and is not saved when I exit, also the two finger scroll ...
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Touchscreen acting weird
I have Asus Vivobook S550CM, after I login to ubuntu everything works fine, but after a while of using PC I cannot perform 1 finger touch-to-click action on touchscreen.
When I touch the screen the ...
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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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how do I install gpointing-device - I seem to have got my brain into a loop
I would like to install the gpointing-device-settings package which I found on the Launchpad website
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpointing-device-settings
I tried:
apt-get install ...
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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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Problem with mouse in 13.04
The problem I have been facing since 12.04. After starting up and using a few applications, touch pad of my laptop stops working. I have to use the commands to kill the process for the touchpad and ...
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Disable pad click on 12.04 - driver problem?
I'd like to disable pad click. Usually it was possible in system settings under mouse and touch pad, but in Ubuntu 12.04 I can't see "touch pad" in mouse and touch pad settings...
I've installed ...
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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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mouse pointer clicks by itself
Every time I use my touchpad on my laptop, when I'm done using it my mouse pointer starts turning grey from the top of it point and in about a second when it is all grey it clicks automatically. How ...
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Ignore finger resting on trackpad button (Asus s200e)
I recently picked up an Asus s200E and installed Ubuntu 13.04; the issue im having is i cannot rest my finger on the buttons while using my other finger to move the cursor without it locking up in ...
