Questions tagged [touchpad]

Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpads/trackpads.

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Trackpad not working after update to Ubuntu 14.10 on Dell Inspiron 15R

When I updated from 14.04 to 14.10 I noticed my track-pad cursor and left and right mouse clickers were not working. I have tried looking this issue up and can not find any solutions anywhere. If ...
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Ubuntu Oneko mouse pointer animation distorted

I know this is one of the less important questions here . But Cats!!. I am using oneko and it works fine when the cat is chasing the mouse pointer but when the cat stops in the mouse pointer the cat ...
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Setting up Synaptics Touchpad Gestures in 2017

I have a lenovo t450s and it has a synaptics touchpad. In windows there are lots of gestures supported. In ubuntu 17.04, the only ones working are two finger vertical scrolling and right-click with 2-...
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touchegg trackpad gestures stopped working after upgrading to 17.04

On 16.10 I set up touchegg to change the workspace when swiping with three fingers. It worked perfectly until I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus. My trackpad still works right now, it's just ...
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Uncontrollable Mouse Pointer

Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14 series dual boot on a Panasonic CF-30. I'm an absolute novice with Linux but I need to format micro SD cards to EXT3 format for cameras, and I have several XP machines that ...
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How to change shortcut to launch Search window from just Super/CMD on Macbook?

This is my third hour using Ubuntu and I'm pretty ticked off that whenever I just tap with four fingers on the track pad or just hit Super (known as COMMAND key to Macbook users), it brings up the ...
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GNOME 3: palm rejection?

I have installed GNOME 3 on my Dell XPS 15". Things are going pretty good but the track pad is hypersensitive and has no palm rejection. The slightest waiver over it causes the cursor to move or click....
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Macbook Trackpad very coarse

I recently installed Ubuntu on my Macbook. Everything seems to be working just fine except for the trackpad. The right click (with 2 fingers) works just fine but when I try to scroll the cursor it is ...
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Dell Latitude 3340 Twitching mouse cursor when using touchpad or just resting 1 finger on touchpad!

So I have been going through many of the forum posts here, even some who are addressing same issue as I have but not with a "real" fix! My problem is the mouse pad, when I use ubuntu, acts erratic ...
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Set Mouse Left Handed on Lubuntu

I can't set lubuntu mouse/touchpad to left hand I tried this: bruno@lubuntu:~$ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer ...
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Laptop keyboard and mouse not working

I have a Lenovo ideapad 110s running Ubuntu 17.04 and the mouse and keyboard on my laptop is not responding. It happened once about a month ago, the battery died and the next time i booted it up the ...
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Disabling touchpad acceleration

I'd like to disable the dreadful touchpad acceleration Ubuntu Budgie has enabled by default. How could I do that (using the terminal)? It's an Elantech touchpad so I can't use the SynapticsTouchpad ...
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UBUNTU 17.04 Acer Aspire e15 Touchpad not working

I am new to Ubuntu. I've done a clean installation of Ubuntu 17.04, and the touchpad of my Aspire E15 does not work. The result of the xinput command is: xinput ⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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trackpad buttons in ubuntu 16.04 (left button is working as secondary button)

I bought Acer Predator 17" (Predator GX-792) for the deep learning research purpose, and I installed Ubuntu 16.04 as dual booting. I think everything works well, except trackpad. There are two ...
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Touchpad , wifi and ethernet doesnt work

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 as dual boot in my laptop. It was working good for a few month , but yesterday it started making a weird problem. Wifi doesnt work anymore , I tried to enter in internet ...
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Changes in 50-synaptics.config File have no effect. Are they being Overritten?

Changes to the 50-synaptics.config file have no effect. Would like to change resolution. I have added Option "VertResolution" "20" Option "HorizResolution" "20" Please check out the log file. Maybe ...
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Alps touchpad vertical/horizontal resolution

I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Lenovo Yoga 500 14-ISK. Everything works as it should, except the touchpad. It does recognize multitouch, right clic (not zooming multitouch but I dont know if this ...
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Touchpad working intermitently on Kubuntu 17.04

I've got Kubuntu 17.04 installed on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and I'm having some weird issues with the touchpad. It doesn't seem to be consistently working. Sometimes after a boot, it works just fine. ...
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touchpad driver for Asus laptop

I have an Asus ZX50V laptop. When I installed Ubuntu Studio on it, the built-in mouse pad didn't work. when I plug in a usb mouse, that works. Is there a driver available for the touchpad?
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Synaptics and display issue

I'm facing this issue where synaptics shows up as a display for me each time I start my laptop. All I've got right now is screenshots but don't know where to look to find more logs related to this ...
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I can't change vertical/horizontal resolution of my touchpad

I have changed settings in the 50-synaptics.conf file as stated in this thread: Change touchpad horizontal and vertical acceleration/sensitivity? I have added: Option "VertResolution" "75" Option "...
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Can I install packages/drivers from older releases of Ubuntu? [duplicate]

Can I, running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, install, say, a driver for Ubuntu 14.04? I'm running Ubuntu on a Parrot Chromebook and the touchpad doesn't work and neither do the F1-12 keys when I'm not holding ...
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Touchpad not freezing and moving slow

I just changed my OS from Ubuntu 15.04 to 16.04 and I was having a great time but the touchpad started to freeze or moving really REALLY slow. What can I do? PS: My notebook is an Acer Aspire E5.
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Pointer continues moving after stopping finger

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.2 on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (5th Gen.). There seems to be some sort of mouse deceleration, i.e. when I stop moving my finger, the pointer continues in the same direction for a ...
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My touchpad is not working properly in ubuntu 16.04 but there is no problem in older version

I am unable to select multiple folders. When I left click and scroll on touchpad the cursor doesn't move it just function as right click. But right click is working properly. But on my earlier version ...
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Trackpad not working after adjusting after-typing delay

I just typed in the following command to reduce the trackpad delay after typing: syndaemon -i 0.5 -d The trackpad is now completely unresponsive. Luckily this Lenovo has a Touchpoint. I can still ...
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Permanently disable tap to touch on XFCE-Awesome WM without using a Upstart script

I'm using Awesome WM on a base Xubuntu. The Tap touchpad to click checkbox in xfce4-settings-manager is ignored, presumably because I'm using Awesome WM. Setting synclient MaxTapTime=0 only works ...
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After installing Ubuntu12.04 LTS, touchpad is not working

I have recently installed Ubuntu12.04 on my Dell inspiron 14 3000 Series. After installing Ubuntu12.04(amd 64bit), its touchpad is not working. But its keyboard even wireless Keyboard and mouse is ...
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Is it possible to automatically lock direction of two finger scroll on touchpad [duplicate]

There is one feature that is available on Windows and which I would really love to discover on Linux. It works the following way. Suppose I have an area which I can scroll both vertically and ...
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How do I install gpointing-device? [duplicate]

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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Mercury Avatar (Elantech) touchpad multitouch and gesture are not supported?

I'm a bit of a linux noob, but I'm smart enough to figure out how to update the software and such. I've run apt-get update and upgrade and installed touchegg. I cannot figure out how to enable ...
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ALPS touchpad stops working after reboot

I recently upgraded to 12.04 LTS. My Compaq Presario CQ-40 324la touchpad worked after first restarting after installation. But after restarting a second time, the touchpad is completely disabled, ...
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Touchpad not disabled on 17.04

I did those steps https://askubuntu.com/a/904677/694849 then i could see option of disabling touchpad and i disabled it. touchpad disabled then rstarted but still i can use touchpad. Why? i have ...
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How to disable natural scrolling in Ubuntu GNOME 17.04?

I can't disable natural scrolling, and I have tried disabling and enabling it from the Mouse and touch-pad settings. I'm using GNOME Shell 3.24.1. I have already tried these commands: gsettings set ...
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Synaptics touchpad not working suddenly

My touchpad has been working until suddenly it stopped detecting input, or button clicks. If I run lsinput, I see that it is in fact detected. (/dev/input/event6 bustype : BUS_I8042 vendor : ...
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Mouse pointer moves at different speeds up/down and left/right in DOSBox

I'm trying to run a game* in DOSBox. It works perfectly except the pointer which moves at different speeds along y and x axes: it moves much more quickly up/down than left/right. Simply adjusting ...
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Disable Tap to Click on Haier Y11b

I have installed ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Haier Y11b Its touchpad is very bad at guessing tap while we move finger over it. I want to disable TAP to click, unfortunately this setting is not there in ...
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Trackpad behaves incorrectly before suspend

I know it's a fairly common problem for trackpads to not work correctly after resuming from suspend. But, in my case the trackpad ONLY works correctly after resuming from suspend. Upon booting the ...
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gpointing-device-settings isn't working - ubuntu 17.04

gpointing-device-settings isn't working. It doesn't work when I click 'apply' and it doesn't work after a restart. I'm trying to turn off mousepad tapping on my laptop, a dell 5577. I am using ubuntu ...
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How to disable touchpad while typing in gnome? [duplicate]

I have gone through the existing answers, and none of them work for me. I am using Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. In Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and even Xubuntu, there is an entry in Settings->Mouse to "disable touchpad ...
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multitouch gestures thinkpad x240

I have a problem with multitouch on my thinkpad x240 (Ubuntu 16.04, Unity). I have tried touchegg with no results. Geis shows that my touchpad can recognize only two fingers. But according to tech ...
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Elantech Touchpad not working on Ubuntu 16.04 and Arch Linux

So I have and Asus R558UF notebook with an Elantech Touchpad. After installing Ubuntu 16.04, the touchpad worked once but after restarting, it failed to work and has not been working ever since. This ...
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Marking/dragging do not work after upgrade from 16.04 to 16.04.2 for some trackpad buttons

I upgraded from 16.04 to 16.04.2 (had not done updates in a while). I also use the 4.8 kernel that comes with 16.04.2. I'm using a Dell Latitude E7440, which has two sets of mouse buttons above and ...
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Configuring Dell touchpad to fix jumpy cursor

I am running ubuntu 16.04 on a dell inspiron touch screen module. Wheever I type my touchpad jumps. I have tried an array of guides on this forum but nothing worked well for me. $xinput list ⎡ ...
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Click & drag with keyboard shortcut

The "click down" key on my laptop touchpad requires too much force, making it difficult to click & drag. I would like to solve this by holding down a keyboard shortcut while dragging along the ...
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Touch pad only works when mouse is connected Kubuntu

I am using Kubuntu 16.04.02 When I connect the USB mouse I can use the touch pad but as soon as I unplug it it stops working. When I go into touch pad from settings it says no touch pad is connected? ...
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Touchpad disabled for no apparent reason

I'm on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 My touch-pad suddenly stopped working, I don't know what caused it. I did not tinker with anything related to the touch-pad. After reading this ...
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Macbook style touchpad not working correctly (Dell Inspiron 15 7547)

I just installed Ubuntu 14.10 on this new laptop and am having issues with the touchpad. The touchpad is one of those all-in-one style ones where there are no separate left/right buttons. Because of ...
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Prevent cursor jumps with trackpad in dell xps-13 and ubuntu 16.04

The cursor tends to jump to the lower left corner of the screen when clicking on the trackpad in the xps-13 I purchased last December. I have found mentions to the issue here and here, but both ...
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Touchpad not working on Gnome 17.04 (it worked on Unity 17.04)

I just did a clean reinstall of Ubuntu to migrate from Unity to Gnome. However, a lot of drivers that were present in 17.04 are missing in Gnome 17.04 less /proc/bus/input/devices Doesn't show my ...

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