an input device commonly found on laptops, used in place of a mouse. Also called a touchpad.
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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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Macbook 6.1 (late 2009) running Ubuntu 13.04 mouse issues
I've got a Macbook 6.1 (late 2009) now running Ubuntu 13.04. The trackpad works somewhat, however it freezes refusing to move at all, and it also has been trying to scroll when I only have one finger ...
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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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Ubuntu 13.04 mouse and trackpad unresponsive
I have finally fixed my installation problem but now the trackpad and the mouse is unresponsive. On Try Ubuntu they work just fine. How do I fix this?
My laptop is the HP Pavilion G6 2269wm I am ...
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I really don't know how to describe this [closed]
I tried Ubuntu QQ from a Live USB (done with Linux Live USB Creator) and everything worked fine. But obviously the amount of persistence data is not enough.
So I installed it off the same USB on to a ...
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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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Touchpad/Trackpad is not found by Ubuntu 12.10 but external USB mouse works
I've just attempted a reinstall of Ubuntu 12.10, which has resulted in my issue of the trackpad not working. I've run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, but still to no avail. Here ...
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Calibrating Clickpad
I just installed and set up Ubuntu 12.10 on my new Lenovo S206 with a Synaptics Clickpad. The problem is that clicking makes the cursor jump which is quite annoying at times. So I checked the fora for ...
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Disable three finger tap of Apple Trackpad in Ubuntu 12.04
I have configured Apple trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04 in xorg.conf as suggested here.
I have also added
"TapButton3" "0"
but it does not disable three finger tap.
My Question
How to disable three ...
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My TouchPad is not responding on an Acer Aspire E1-471-6650
I recently bought an Acer Aspire E1-471-6650 and I already have problems. First, when I tried to use the touchpad on a LiveCD, it wasn't responding. When I installed it in my notebook, it wasn't ...
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synaptics multitouch not working 12.04
I have a laptop (Acer 7745G) with a synaptics touchpad that should support up to 3 finger multitouch if I am interpreting the output of grep "TouchPad: buttons" /var/log/Xorg.0.log correctly. The ...
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Disable touch drag
I am using touchpad on my laptop, but sometimes when I move pointer around it starts dragging (touch drag). I prefer to drag while holding it down.
Can this touch drag be disabled?
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WiFi and sound not working and trackpad acting strange on Macbook 5,2 with Ubuntu 12.10
I'm pretty much completely new to Ubuntu but felt like I wanted to explore it to see what all the fuzz was about so I went through the hassle on installing it on a 32gb partition on my mid 2009 ...
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lenovo x230 trackpad stopped working
I wonder if any person has any ideas for help.
I have a Lenovo x230 running ubuntu 12.04.2 which was working fine until a recent reboot. After which the touchpad has stopped working.
The ...
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Kubuntu trackpad multifinger gesture support
I was wondering if there's a way to enable multi finger gesture support in Kubuntu 12.10. I specifically would like to quickly be able to change desktop or minimise apps. Other functionality would ...
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Tap-to-click not working in Ubuntu 12.04
I edited Xorg.conf as suggested here to control the speed of pointer movement for Apple Magic Trackpad in 12.04.1 and it works.
But now the trackpad does not recognize tap-to-click. I read the man ...
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touchpad not working properly on ubuntu 12.04
I have installed ubuntu 12.04 on my macbook pro as a dual boot and I'm having issues with my touchpad. It doesn't have the same feel as OSX and it gets hyper sensitive at times. For instance , I will ...
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Trackpad not working on thinkpad after upgrade- help?
Relevant info:
Thinkpad W530
Precise 12.04.2
$ uname -a
Linux revolt 3.2.0-38-generic-pae #60-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 13 13:47:26 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
After allowing a system update (I ...
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Increase pointer speed for trackpad in Ubuntu 12.04
I am trying make Apple Trackpad more usable for my needs. So did set the
motion-acceleration to 120 and
motion-threshold to -500
as suggested here and shown in the image below.
The speed of ...
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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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Disable Mouse Movement in Tap Zones on Synaptics Trackpad
I have an HP dv6-3160 with a "soft" trackpad e.g. the buttons are part of it.
Ubuntu 12.10 works well with it apart from when I want to drag+drop. Because the mouse movement area includes the buttons ...
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How to disable 3 finger drag on macbook air trackpad. I'm a novice with command line
So I read the other answer for this question but I really was hoping to get a more basic explanation that would make sense to an ubuntu novice.
I am running 12.10 on a 2011 macbook air and love it ...
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Right Click on Macbook 7.1 (Ubuntu 12.10)?
There's two things I love: Ubuntu and my Macbook. Unfortunately the right click (= click with two fingers) is just a real pain. Is there a way to have my right click in the right bottom corner of my ...
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How can I move my pointer with out a mouse or track pad? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I configure “mousekeys”?
Sometimes I use my laptop with out a mouse and my track pad is currently not working. I have grown accustomed to moving around a website ...
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Is it possible to manually define the usable space on my laptop's trackpad?
I have an Asus UX21A ultrabook. It's really sweet in most respects. However, there is one issue which to me is a design flaw, though maybe some people think it's a feature.
The tracking area of the ...
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Configuring Apple Magic Trackpad in 12.04
How should I configure a Magic Trackpad in 12.04 to
ignore my thumb at the bottom of the trackpad
change scrolling speed
change gesture functions (e.g. have three-finger tap = middle-click), if ...
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Use laptop trackpad as graphics tablet
I'm interested in using my laptop trackpad as a drawing tablet, i.e. using absolute rather than relative coordinates, similar to Inklet for OSX.
The same question was asked in ubuntuforums.org in May ...
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How do I turn off clickpad application switching?
Using Ubuntu 12.10, every time I try to click and drag on the clickpad on my laptop it starts application switching, as if I were pressing ALT-TAB. It was also presenting handles on the windows, but ...
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Will the Logitech T650 rechargable wireless touchpad work with Ubuntu?
I've searched Google, but haven't found any answer to this. I'm thinking about getting the Logitech T650 wireless touchpad as a replacement for my old mouse. (More information: ...
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How can I prevent my cursor from moving when I am clicking the trackpad?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Macbook Pro. When I click the trackpad, it is always registered as a small mouse movement as well as a click, so it drags whatever I click on. has anybody else ...
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How do I disable the right side of my trackpad?
I'm trying to figure out how to disable the right hand side of my trackpad in Ubuntu. The default behavoir is for the right hand side to right click. However, I would like a single click anywhere on ...
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Natural scrolling not working for horizontal scroll, how to fix this?
I've enabled natural scrolling via Ubuntu Tweak's miscellaneous options, but that doesn't seem to take effect for horizontal scroll; neither in web browsers, nor in nautilus or other native ...
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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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Ubuntu 12.04 + Bluetooth problems with maintaining connection
I have an Apple Wireless Mouse, Apple Wireless Keyboard, Apple Wireless Trackpad, and a pair of headphones. All of these connect to the computer via a Bluetooth dongle.
After several hours I've ...
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Click and drag/multi-touch not working 12.04
I just installed 12.04 on my new laptop, Asus K55a, and the click and drag is not really working. It will let me double tap and drag, but I can not use the trackpad to click and then drag it around. ...
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How can I tell ubuntu to ignore mouse movements while clicking?
I've got a Macbook Air and am trying out ubuntu on it.
One thing that is really annoying is the behavior of the trackpad. Macs have those click-pads, where you have to press down the whole trackpad ...
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Custom trackpad mapping doesn't work for all applications
I found out I could invert my trackpad scrolling, so as to work more like the OS X "natural scrolling", which I liked better.
To do that, I run the following command on startup:
xinput ...
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Mouse and Trackpad each having two separate pointers on separate screens
I have a pc running xubuntu with a screen on one side of a wall with a trackpad attached to the wall and another screen with a mouse and keyboard on the otherside of the wall. Is there a way to have ...
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Cursor jumps to corner of screen when I touch edges of touchpad/trackpad
When using Ubuntu 12.04, if I happen to touch one of the extreme edges of my touchpad, my cursor spontaneously jumps to the top left corner of the screen. I have tried disabling all touchpad features ...
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Dell 15z Trackpad very jumpy
I have the trackpad working. both with noirq settings and latest sputnik updates. But the trackpad is insanely sensitive. Lifting my finger off of the pad causes the cursor to jump, it twitches an ...
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Disable tap-to-click in Xubuntu 12.04
I am trying to disable my trackpad's tap-to-click "feature" in Xubuntu 12.04. I followed the advice in http://superuser.com/questions/70661/disable-tap-to-click-in-xubuntu (NB GPointingDeviceSettings ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 macbook 3,1 ( late 2007 model ) - Trackpad / GPU issues
Medium time linux user here ( for 3-4 years now ). I´m having some issues with my Macbook white 3,1 ( late 2007 model ) and the latest LTS of ubuntu ( 12.04 fully updated ).
First off all, my ...
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Enabling middle-click and gestures on multitouch clickpad? (Ubuntu 12.04; Samsung NP900X3A-A03US)
Out of the box (with the xorg.conf from the Ubuntu wiki), left-click, right-click, and two-finger scroll all work flawlessly. However, middle-click doesn't work at all (despite appearing to be ...
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Speakers make tiny crackle noise every second, then trackpad stops working on a Dell Studio XPS 1640
So for the past few days, an issue has arisen that can't be ignored anymore with Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell Studio XPS 1640 laptop. I've had 12.04 installed on it for months with no problems until ...
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Using three finger swipe
I liked having a three finger swipe up to spread all open windows and having a three finger swipe down minimize all windows. Is there a way I can implement this in Ubuntu 12.04?
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What are Ubuntu's plans for supporting Synaptics Multi-touch clickpad moving forward? [closed]
Currently, the Synaptics multitouch clickpad does not work on many laptops, including many notebooks from the HP Envy line of machines. Synaptics offers an SDK to OEMs, but no source-code or binary ...
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how to re-enable trackpad accidentally disabled it using third party software(Jupiter)
Im an ubuntu noob, I accidentally disabled my trackpad using the Jupiter power management software, but cant seem to be able to re-enable it. Tried rebooting the system to no avail. Any ideas on how ...
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tracking on clickpad very erratic
My clickpad on HP Envy 15t-3200 is extremely erratic and sensitive.
During the Ubuntu installer it behaves smoothly.
Acceleration and Sensitivity are set to "slow" and "low". Those are the ...
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How to fix an aborted 12.04 upgrade?
I was upgrading to 12.04 when my computer froze up then crashed. It was about two thirds of the way done installing when the crash occurred, and the wireless network wont work and the track pad on my ...
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How to add a Right-Click function to the Magic Trackpad?
I liked how you can tap the bottom-right corner of the Magic Trackpad to get a right-click.
How can I have this in Ubuntu? I installed touchegg but there isn't an option for that.
