Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpad/trackpads.
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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
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 ...
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Minor touchpad annoyance, disabled vertcal scrolling?
I have a dell inspiron 1545 with an ALPS touchpad on raring.
In my previous os I could disable the vertical scrolling function (the right edge of the touchpad) in the mouse settings.
I have found a ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 with eMachines E625 touchpad not working
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on my eMachines E625 laptop.
Earlier it was Windows Vista; I removed it.
It looks nice, but the E625 has a touchpad.
It stopped working after installing Ubuntu.
Currently I ...
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How To Disable Touchpad Running Ubuntu 12.04LTS On Dell Inspiron 1525
The Touchpad on my Dell laptop is an annoyance; while typing, if I inadvertantly strike
it, the "I-beam" (or Mouse Pointer) ends up somewhere other than where I want it.
None of the settings I have ...
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Can you disable PART of a touchpad?
Can you disable only part of a touchpad? I'm using a Lenovo Yoga13, and the touchpad extends down into the click area. So, every time I click, it moves the mouse a little bit. It's pretty annoying.
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Ubuntu 13.04 Touchpad option not exists
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 and I have opened Mouse & Touch-pad, but there is no Touch pad tap. I am using a Dell Inspiron 17R 7720 SE.
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changes made to synclient are being reset
When I make changes to synclient, they are reset to their default values when I lock the pc, log out, or shut down the pc. How can I make sure these changes stick?
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How do I make my synclient settings stick? - Ubuntu 13.04
The default setting for synaptics touchpads includes a paste functionality mapped to the upper right corner of the touchpad. I can disable this behavior by running the command
synclient ...
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“E: Unable to locate package touchpad-indicator” even after adding repository and enabling sources
I'm trying to install the touchpad-indicator discussed here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/touchpad-indicator-now-automatically.html
but I keep getting this error, even after using Software Center ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 three-finger window moving not working anymore
I juste upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 on my Samsung New Series 9 (NP900X4C-A01FR).
Before, in 12.10, I could move/minimize/maximize the windows, using 3 fingers. These 3 functions doesn't work anymore.
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Ubuntu sidebar won't register scroll wheel when trying to scroll vertically
I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, and I've noticed something is not working properly. In 12.10 it was easy to slide up and down the vertically-inclined sidebar by simply rolling the mouse wheel ...
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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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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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How do I get the touchpad working on a Toshiba P850?
The synaptics touchpad is not working after a fresh install of ubuntu 12.04.2 on a Toshiba P850. It works fine under windows 8 (it's a dual boot machine).
It appears to be recognised OK in ...
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Touchpad stopped working
Touchpad suddenly doesn't work anymore on my 12.04 LTS (AMD64 desktop). An attached USB mouse works and since I have a dual-boot system with Windows 8, I know the touchpad has no hardware problems. ...
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Dell Inspiron 7720 - upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 broke touchpad driver
Today the updated informed me that there are udpates and a new version of Kubuntu. After installing the updates and pressing "Quit" the updater began upgrading to 13.04 (?!?!?!).
Anyway, after the ...
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Not recognizing TouchPad, USB, Wifi, or Ethernet on 13.04
Had 12.10 before and things were fine. I am using a Dell Vostro 3550 laptop. All devices work fine from the Live USB drive. But after I actually do the install onto my drive, my touchpad, usb ports, ...
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Lenovo Y500 synaptics touchpad too fast/slow
I installed Ubuntu on my Lenovo ideapad Y500.
The synaptics touchpad behaves strange.
The mouse moves with different speeds for x and y direction.
And the mousepointer seems to jump on it's way.
How ...
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A couple of multitouch gestures are not working in 13.04 compared to 12.04
The three finger pinch and zoom as well as the three fingers to move the window are not working in 13.04. Any ideas on how to fix this. My computer is the i5 Acer Aspire S7.
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Move windows with 3 finger lost on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail [closed]
Since an update 2 weeks ago I can't move windows with 3 buttons on touchpad. Before it,when I press with 3 fingers, unity mt grab handles appears and windows move with touchpad.
Is there any way to ...
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Two finger swipe to go back in browser in precise?
Have tried various things but I can't find a good solution to enable two finger swipe to go 'back' in a browser. Two finger vertical scrolling works fine, but it's side-swipe back/foward I'm after.
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Samsung rv515 trackpad issues [duplicate]
I'm currently on a Samsung RV515 laptop running Windows 7. I'm relatively new to the world of Linux in general, so I started with the Wubi installer to keep things simple. It worked great, however ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Keyboard & Touchpad not working on Acer Aspire V3-551-7844
I'm a bit new to the Linux world, and my english is bad, so go easy on me ok? ;)
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.10 in my Acer Aspire V3-551-7844 (wich came with Windows8, but after some effort I got ...
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How do I get the touchpad working on an Acer Aspire 5332
I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 on my Acer Aspire 5332. I now have an issue with my touchpad not working. When I type the command x input list in the terminal here is what comes up:
~$ ...
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How to activate my touchpad features on Samsung Series 7 Chronos
I'm just looking to how enable the features of my touchpad on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.10. The mouse is working but none of the features are working (like two fingers scrolling up/down).
I visited ...
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Disable touchpad click on Elantech touchpad
I've got a "Perixx Periboard 507" USB keyboard with integrated trackpad, and although it works nicely I'd like to disable the "tap to click" feature. I've tried unchecking the box in the Touchpad ...
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Touchpad detected by xinput, not by system settings, unresponsive on ubuntu 12.04 but ok on windows 7
My ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad has gone unresponsive under Ubuntu 12.04 (but not under windows 7 dual boot).
Unlike many other cases found on the web, while it does not appear under the mouse and ...
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Touchpad recognized as generic ps/2 mouse on a Dell Inspiron 13z 5323
After installing Ubuntu my touchpad has basic functionality but no edge scrolling, multitouch, or any advanced features. Xinput list shows it as a generic ps/2 mouse:
⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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Some multitouch gestures not working on 13.04 [closed]
"3 finger pinch to maximize/restore windows" and "3 finger press and drag to move window" used to work on my Asus X201E on 12.10, but not after upgrading to 13.04. All other gestures mentioned in ...
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Keyboard and mouse stop working after using wireless keyboard and mouse
After installing Ubuntu everything seems to be just fine.
I plugged in my wireless Logitech mouse and my wireless Microsoft keyboard
and they worked just perfectly.
After shutting down the laptop ...
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Touchpad on a Fujitsu Lifebook a532
My touchpad is not working as it should. Well, it works but cant use 2-finger scroll.
I get this:
axept@aXept-Lifebook:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 ...
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Alps touchpad freeze [closed]
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a dell E 6220. The touchpad was
working perfectly (two-finger scrolling, scrolling on the side,
3 button emulation) until the last update. After a while
(5-10 mn) the ...
