Questions tagged [touchpad]
Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpads/trackpads.
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How to make my touchpad work like a tablet?
I installed Ubuntu on my laptop and so far everything is working great, all the drivers are working the same way as in Windows.
Unlike this gentleman's "problem", for me, this is how I want it to ...
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Magic Trackpad 2 is not recognized as synpatic touchpad
I have found a lot of posts on the Internet working with Apple Magic Trackpad on Ubuntu. I bought Apple Magic Trackpad 2 and seems like it is not recognized as a touchpad. I can do left click and ...
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Keyboard and touchpad not working during 2016 12" MacBook install
I recently got a 2016 12" MacBook and am attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 on it.
I created a live USB using Mac Linux USB Loader as recommended by UNetbootin's website. With the boot options noacpi ...
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Turn off the Ctrl + trackpad zoom function
When I press Ctrl + mouse wheel on browser or application windows it zooms in!
Have looked through synclient and inputx but can't figure out how to switch this very annoying feature off. Running ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Laptop internal keyboard and touchpad no longer work
A few weeks ago, I updated 18.04 through 19.04 to 20.04 on my Acer laptop. Everything was fine. A few weeks later, without having done any major update or operation I can remember, I booted up to find ...
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Lenovo Legion 5 touchpad
I have just bought a new Lenovo Legion 5-15ARH05.
I have a problem with the touchpad. It seems that it's recognized by the system,
however, I cannot move with the cursor. I found out that the left ...
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Touchpad inertia scrolling everywhere 16.04
If I scroll with a touchpad in apps like nautilus and the software center in 16.04, I get a nice smooth result which has inertia scrolling (I think it's called that, maybe momentum or coasting). But ...
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Really disable touchpad over the button region
I just installed ubuntu 16.04 as a dual boot with (pre-installed) Windows (just in case I need it twice a year...) on my new HP Spectre x360 13-ac004nf. Under Windows, the touchpad works fine and ...
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Dell XPS 15 touchpad issues
I have a Dell XPS 15 9550, and I recently installed Ubuntu on it along with windows (separate drives). Ubuntu is great and I love it, but I ran into some troubles with my touchpad.
The XPS has a ...
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Restrict waking up from suspend to specific buttons only
I have an Acer Aspire notebook with 16.04 installed on it.
Currently when I suspend, it wakes up on basically everything, including:
opening the lid
pressing the Power button
pressing any keyboard ...
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Better Touch Tool Similar
I recently switch to ubuntu after some years of OSX.
One of the best tool I really miss is the awesome better touch tool.
Do you know something similar?
At least I'd like to be able to switch chromes'...
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How to disable mouse touchpad while typing on Dell XPS 13 (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
I have a Dell XPS 13 9360 dual booted with Ubuntu LTS 16.04.
I was wondering how I could disable the mouse touchpad while I type. Any subtle touch to the touchpad completely throws off my typing. ...
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My touchpad has stopped working in 18.04
The touchpad on my laptop stopped working after the update today. The mouse cursor is visible in the corner, but it doesn't move and the click buttons don't work.
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS on a ...
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Disable tablet mode entirely, how?
It only causes bugs and I never use it. Willing to uninstall the functionality entirely.
Dell Inspiron 13 (i3-7100U/4GB/1TB) Product sku: QF9-01403
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How to make cursor go beyond touchpad edge?
I am looking for a solution for the cursor to continue going in a direction while I am at the edge of the touchpad. This "feature" is already existing in windows.
For example, when I want to drag ...
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libinput: How to properly set up trackpads to inverse scroll in 16.04 and onward for Logitech wireless keyboards + trackpads?
I found a real nice answer here that would be great if it worked:
https://askubuntu.com/a/820098/134500
I'd like to use libinput to get scrolling to work properly as well as other trackpad and ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 Touchpad: two-finger-tap action
Hi i just installed Ubuntu 17.10 and was configuring it so that i 'can work' with it.
and i stumbled over the touchpad configuration.
my touchpad has two hardware buttons for left and right click (...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop mouse freezes after going back from suspend
Under Ubuntu 16.04 PC AMD64 my laptop's mouse pointer freezes after coming back from suspend. The mouse pointer won't respond to the mouse pad. However, I tried attaching a USB mouse and its fine. ...
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Synaptics Touchpad pointer speed change with additional screen
When I plug in an additional screen, the sensitivity of the touchpad scales with the virtual screen dimensions, making it unusable.
I can't imagine how this "feature" could be of interest to anyone, ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Laptop: Mouse cursor not moving but mouse buttons work
As the title states the mouse cursor on my laptop isn't moving but the mouse buttons still work. I'm not sure what to do. I have tested the touchpad on Windows and it works fine.
My laptop is a HP ...
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3 fingers swipe change workspace in Ubuntu 14.04
I just bought an Dell XPS 13 and for my work I have a Macbook.
I want to use the touchpad for changing workspaces. I have found some questions but all the answers provided does not work on Ubuntu 14....
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Touchpad not working after suspend on Asus A450L
I recently change laptop to asus A450L and install latest ubuntu 15.04, there is one annoying bug, touchpad not working after suspend, and need to reboot to make it working again.
Touchpad not ...
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Natural Scrolling on Ubuntu Gnome isn't working
I have what is (as far as I can remember) a vanilla Ubuntu installation (v.14.10) using the Gnome Desktop (v.3.9.90), yet I can't seem to get reverse scrolling to work.
There's no option for natural ...
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Touchpad 2 finger scroll ends with a right click, text marking lag
Some recent update made my two-finger scrolling unbearable. Every single time I scroll it ends with a right click.
Another thing I've noticed is a sort of lag when I'm marking text. This is also ...
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Touchpad cursor jumps on click (not typing)
I have setup my touchpad so that it doesn't move around when I am typing with the following config: https://github.com/fommil/unix/blob/master/Profiles/Sampo/.xsession.local
but it is incredibly ...
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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 setting works fine at that screen and I can test the touchpad with the new settings, also I ...
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How can I continue having two fingers on the trackpad?
I'm quite new to ubuntu (with GUI) - just got over from OS X.
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my MacBook Pro 9.2, and I have the habit of leaving one finger at the bottom of the trackpad ready to ...
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What's the best way to set the touchpad properties and behaviour?
Currently there are just too many places to set touchpad properties and behaviour.
The default sytem settings moused and touchpad tool.
The dconf-editor key /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/
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Touchpad cursor inertia
When using my synaptics touchpad on Windows, the driver has the option of giving the cursor inertia (note, not just the scrolling).
I found it a lot less straining to use the touchpad with this ...
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Jumpy touchpad cursor
After running my laptop for a while, the touchpad response becomes terrible and the cursor become jumpy, I use Kubuntu 22.04. The problem also exists in Kubuntu 20.04.
I tried to change the touchpad ...
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Touchpad detected as "PS/2 Logitech wheel mouse" (Dell XPS 15, Ubuntu 20.04)
Edit: This turned out to be a touchpad hardware issue, as mentioned in a closing comment. Something about the replacement touchpad caused kernel hardware detection to fail, and after I installed ...
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Touchpad causes huge amount of interrupts and high power usage
I have an issue with the touchpad on my notebook where if I use it, it causes a high amount of interrupts which results in significantly higher CPU usage and power drain. The following snippet is ...
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Reduce SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad sensitivity on Ubuntu 18.04LTS
ProBook 4530s
Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Gnome fresh install
xinput list output
~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer ...
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libinput config files don't work on Ubuntu 19.10
I have a 15 inch Dell xps running Ubuntu and for the life of me I can't get libinput to use my configs for the touchpad.
My config files are in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. I also tried to change the ...
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Ubuntu 19.10: no Wayland option. Extended gestures alternatives?
I am missing the Wayland sign in option after upgrading to Ubuntu 19.10.
The first issue is that Extended Gestures ONLY works in Wayland sessions. So I went down the path of trying to get Wayland as ...
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How to enable 2 finger touchpad pinch to zoom gesture (not ctrl+/-) Ubuntu 19.10?
It seems in 19.10 the touchscreen 2 finger zoom is finally working correctly out of the box. So why is same behavior not on the touchpad? Is there any driver, software, Ubuntu flavor, Linux ...
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How to enable keyboard in tablet mode (HP Spectre x360)
HP Spectre x360 laptops have a hinge screen that can turn 360 degrees. It can be folded to imitate a tablet, for example. When you do fold it, Ubuntu enters its tablet mode -- keyboard and touch-pad ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 trackpad swipe gesture keeps opening the volume control
Since upgrading to 19.04 yesterday, annoyingly often when scrolling with 2 fingers on the touchpad the volume control pops up and before I know it I'm at full volume somewhere.
As I'm using this on a ...
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How do I get horizontal scroll history navigation to work in browsers in Ubuntu 18.04?
I can't seem to get horizontal scroll-based navigation (back/forward) to work in any browser under Ubuntu 18.04. For example, in Chromium, the setting to control this can be found by pasting the ...
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Asus UX391UA touchpad on Xorg
I just finished installing Ubuntu 18.04 on a Asus UX391UA Zenbook and have run into trouble configuring the touchpad. The touchpad is recognized but Xorg is unable to configure it at startup.
The ...
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Touchpad speed is too slow even on max
I really want to know how to increase pointer speed when I'm using the touchpad. It just seems to be too slow even on max setting and I tried to configure via dconf-editor but I can't change it more ...
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Right-click with dragging not working on Dell Touchpad since 18.04
I just upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04 and noticed that right-clicking on my touch-pad got recognized as left-click.
I'm using a Dell Inspiron 15 (new) with a touch-pad that has two separate physical ...
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Horizontal natural scroll is reversed
After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04, when I enable the Natural Scrolling setting and scroll with two fingers horizontally it works as if I didn't enable it, i.e. the behavior is the same as with natural ...
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Mouse & touchpad sensitivity settings have no effect - Xubuntu 16.04.3
I will start by saying that I'm completely new to Linux, so bear with me please.
I saw other questions on different sites but either there was no answer, or I didn't understand it.
I'm on a Asus ROG ...
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Touchscreen is being recognized as a mouse
I plugged in a 3M touchscreen to my Linux PC. It appears as it recognizes it as a mouse. Here's my xinput output:
xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳...
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Thinkpad X230 touchpad scroll momentum (inertial scrolling) doesn't work, how to enable it? Ubuntu Gnome 17.04
I can't use momentum scroll (also called inertial scrolling, when it keeps scrolling after giving an acceleration) on my touchpad. It seems to be disabled and I can't enable it.
I've searched on ...
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How can you actually decrease the cursor speed?
My mouse has a high DPI, which makes using any of the Acceleration and Sensitivity options in "Mouse and Touchpad" uncomfortable. I can set both to the lowest possible values, and it's still too fast. ...
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libinput Trackpoint/Touchpad problems on T460p
For a couple of weeks I am now experiencing problems with my trackpoint and touchpad on my Thinkpad T460p on Ubuntu 16.04. I am normally using trackpoint only, preferably with touchpad being disabled. ...
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Apple-Touchpad randomly freezes
This Problem occured first after a Software-Update last year:
A few hours after booting my System (an 2008 Macbook;running Ubuntu 16.04) my touchpad starts freezing randomly, unfreezing after a ...
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Mouse Jumps all around in 16.04
I just ran apt upgrade and apt autoremove on my laptop (with a touchpad and a touchscreen) and now my mouse is acting bizarre. When I attempt to move the mouse it jumps all around the screen and when ...