Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpad/trackpads.
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Lubuntu 12.10 TouchScreen detected as JoyStick make Axes Swap & Inversion
I would like to say hello to everybody considering that it is my first post on this great community.
I have a small question regarding my touchscreen display, what seems to have the axes inverted.
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12.04 LTS Side-scrolling for touch pad?
I know that you can set the touch pad to scroll on the right side, but is it possible to scroll left and right? I mean, when there are websites that require side scrolling, is it possible to swipe on ...
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Touchpad sensitivity issue even after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10
Still having this problem on Ubuntu 12.10 Touchpad twitchy on an HP G62 with a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad even after I upgraded to 12.10.
Same problem here posted 2 days ago Touchpad sensitivity
I ...
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Can't change mouse speed in 12.10
I am on an Asus Zenbook UX32VD in Ubuntu 12.10. Both in 12.04 and 12.10 I haven't been able to change the mousespeed (i.e. the "sensitivity" in the mouse/touchpad dialog). I can change the slider, but ...
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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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Continuous scrolling up of open application window when pointer hoving over
Odd but extremely frustrating bug! When the pointer is over any open window the page scrolls all the way to the top. If I want to remain at the current location of the page, application, or ...
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How can I change the two figure behavior with my MacBook Pro (6,2)'s trackpad?
By default on mac os, with two fingers I can do this:
-leave a finger on the mouse pad, and move another finger, and still be able to move the mouse
-two finger scrolling requires both fingers be ...
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Laptop buttons not working on a Dell Latitude e6400
I have install Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit on my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop.
I have the latest bios version for my laptop (A32) which I downloaded from the official Dell website by checking updates that ...
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Touchpad Clicking Mode seperate from mouse
I use lefthanded mode for my touchpad and righthanded for my mouse. Windows has a simple option for setting these modes for each device, but I can't find such an option in Ubuntu. How do I do it?
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 and 12.10 USB mouse and touchpad lag
I have tried Ubuntu 12.04.1 and Ubuntu 12.10, and I get a very nasty lag while using my USB mouse and/or touchpad. I have tried Fedora and it's a little better on the lag, but I still get it. I know ...
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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 stops working after login
My gf's touchpad has started acting funky since she hooked it up to a projector. It works alright on startup, but as soon as she gets out of the login screen, the cursor freezes up and she has to use ...
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Lenovo X220 right click does not work with ubuntu 12.04
I am unable to right click with my new X220 Lenovo sub-notebook. I have read several workaround but even not know which one would help me. Can someone help me to find the solution or workaround?
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My Toshiba Touchpad not working
Can you give a solution for this problem. My touch pad stopped working all of a sudden in 12.04. I think its a bug. Please give a solution.
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Touchpad not working on an Acer One 725
I installed ubuntu on a usb drive on a acer one 725, and cannot seem to be able to make the touchpad work....here is what i have
xinpbig-marc@Big-Marc:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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How to edit Unity multitouch gestures?
I can't find a way to modify the touchpad gestures Unity uses by default on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10.
Tried with Ginn, but it shows error subscribing to gestures and it seems because of Unity.
Is there a ...
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Touchpad not workin on Dell Inspiron 14R
My touchpad doesn't work, have tried many of the posts here and nothing.
Found this command: $ sudo lshw and this is the return.
My Mouse and Touchpad application don't have the tab for touchpad, ...
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Touchpad strange behavior (click delays until cursor is stopped)
I've faced with the problem that is very uncomfortable to live with.
The problem is that when i click vai touchpad, Ubuntu for some reason delays this event untill cursor stops. I.e.: I move cursor. ...
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Dell Inspiron N5110 Touchpad not detected
sanju@sanju-Inspiron-N5110:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ...
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My touchpad is extremely laggy on samsung rv515 [closed]
The touchpad barely works and lags to a point I cant use it at all. I have Ubuntu 12.10 and a Samsung rv515, plz help somebody.
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Wake up from screen off (like Windows and Mac)
Is there a way to configure Ubuntu such that it doesn't require 2 keystrokes to wake it up from the state where the screen is disabled after being absent, but a simple touch on the touchpad suffices ...
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Cursor changes its position to any random position itself while typing
I am using Kubuntu 12.04, since Ubuntu 11.04 I am facing this problem.
Most of time my pointer's position changes to any random position itself and it start typing somewhere else and sometime content ...
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mouse touch pad becomes unresponsive some times
I have a dual boot laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 loaded.Things have been working fine
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 from past 1.5 years, recently I came up with this problem that the touchpad ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 right click not working after upgrade [closed]
I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 beta 1 from 12.04 LTS and found out that right click from touchpad is not working. I can left click icons and right-click menu appears but cannot right click items.
Please ...
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Touchpad right-click doesn't work on my Asus notebook
I just installed 12.04 and I noticed that my Touchpad's right-click isn't working at all. My Touchpad is working fine for 2 finger scrolling it also worked fine under Windows 7. The touchpad has a ...
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How to disable three finger gestures on touchpad? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I disable the multitouch gestures in Ubuntu?
I am using 12.04 on a macbook pro. Everything works really well,except... I want to disable 3 finger gestures. It is ...
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How do I verify that syndaemon is disabling the touchpad while I type?
I thought that I had set syndaemon to disable the touchpad while I type, and for 0.8 seconds afterwards. In order to change the default touchpad delay of 2.0 seconds, which is hard-coded into the ...
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random keys not working on laptop
I noticed today that my laptop's keyboard started misbehaving today, and there is a number of keys that won't work. If I plug an external USB keyboard, everything seems to work fine. I would like to ...
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Dell Inspiron touchpad not working [closed]
I own a Dell Inspiron on which I installed 12.04 on. Everything was working great up until a couple of weeks ago when the Touchpad stopped working. It doesn't show up in mouse/touchpad settings ...
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help with synclient configuration on an Elantech touchpad
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my brand new ASUS K55V.
The touchpad behaves weird - two finger tap is interpreted as right-click, click and drag is not working (a double click is needed) ...
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Touchpad not working in Ubuntu 12.04
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 from Windows Vista (Wubi) and use it as a dual boot. However while in the process of installing I turned the touch pad off. And after installation the touchpad is not ...
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Is the tap-to-click issue solved [closed]
I'm just an average Joe when it comes to computing (maybe less then the average Joe) but I hate tap-to-click.
In system and settings there is no touchpad tab?
Is it true that this has been fixed?
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Did 12.04 just add multi-touch gesture support mid-release?
I was reviewing the updates I was about to download today and I
noticed that a lot of them had to do with gesture support,
noticed that many of these were new installs rather than upgrades.
Has ...
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How do I get my right- and middle-click back?
I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04.1 on my Macbook 7,1 and the first thing I noticed was that I couldn't right-click by clicking on the clickpad with two fingers, or middle-click by clicking with ...
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Touchpad scrolling
Just installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu.
I wonder if it's possible to enable two fingers and edge scrolling, both??? I think I had this on Xubuntu. Btw I have Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with Gnome 3 ...
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New Vostro 3360 touchpad scroll
I have purchased one Vostro 3360 that appears to be supported by Ubuntu.
I have problems with Ethernet (I solved with alx drivers) and touchpad Alps (scroll not working) after install Ubuntu ...
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can I setup 3-finger swipes to switch workspaces? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Touchpad gestures to change workspace
Is there a way to set up 3 finger swipes to switch my current workspace?
Similar to macs.
Ubuntu 12.04, with compiz.
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How to enable Two finger scrolling on Lenovo Thinkpad T400 in Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
It is disabled (greyed out) in Mouse and Touchpad settings. Edge scrolling works though :) Tried many solutions available online but couldn't succeed.
My touchpad is
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
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How do I get the touchpad working on an Aspire V3-771G?
Did someone found an issue to that problem ?
I just have the normal mouse function.
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Assigning a script to a keystroke to toggle touchpad
Since my default sony vaio shortcuts don't completely work in Ubuntu 12.04, I'd like to assign a script to Fn + F1, which toggles the touchpad on and off, so that the cursor would stop moving while ...
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How may I know if my devices have their drivers installed?
I have a Dell N4110 laptop, and I want to know if the drivers are installed and working well.
For example, with my touchpad, in windows it has multi-touch gestures, so that I can scroll or zoom with ...
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Turn off tap to click on typing - ALPS touchpad [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ALPS touchpad on DELL Inspiron I15RN-3647BK with Ubuntu 11.10 x64
There are many questions on the site regarding the ALPS touchpads which are not recognized by Ubuntu. ...
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Mouse freezes after 20 minutes of use
I use 12.04 and an old HP Probook 4515s. Every time I start the PC, everything works fine but after about 20 minutes, my mouse freezes. Neither the PC nor any program works, just the cursor.
What ...
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Mouse click events are delayed when moving the cursor in xubuntu 12.04
I am trying out live xubuntu on my samsung n150 (netbook, similar to eeepc). So far everything seems perfect, except for this one thing.
When I am clicking the mouse while moving the cursour, the ...
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12.04 : Three finger gestures disappeared from touchpad?
I've recently upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04, and I realize now that I have lost the ability to simulate a middle-click by using my touchpad with three fingers.
My laptop is a recent Sony VAIO VPCSE (I ...
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How to disable touchpad while using trackpoint on a Thinkpad?
Thinkpads (e.g. X230 that I'm using) have both a trackpoint and a touchpad. The touchpad is disabled when typing.
However, when I'm using the trackpoint, I often touch the touchpad as well, and ...
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I need to disable touchpad
how to disable touchpad automatically when I either log in or the machine wakes up? To disable it I run
xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0
but every time the system is suspended and woken up, ...
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Touchpad Dies Occassionally
This problem started after I upgraded to 12.04 (I did a fresh install and not an upgrade from 11.10). Now my touchpad dies whenever it wants to, and I have to either restart or suspend the system to ...
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Acer V3-771 Touchpad detected as ps/2 generic mouse
I have a brand new Acer V3-771G. I can use my Touchpad fine but I can't scroll with it, because its detected as a PS/2 generic mouse:
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 ...
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How do I get the touchpad on an ASUS N56VZ working properly?
I just got my new Asus laptop today, and after installing Ubuntu I experienced some weird mouse behaviour, at least a new behaviour to me. It seems the mouse is in Mac-theme, no right clicking but ...
