an input device commonly found on laptops, used in place of a mouse. Also called a touchpad.
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How do I enable my synaptics trackpad?
When I booted 11.10 from the Install CD, everything worked fine.
However, once I installed Ubuntu, my trackpad stopped working - does anyone know why this is so?
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Grab Handles appearing randomly, causes erratic mouse behavior
I did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 recently. Every so often, Grab Handles will appear on the active window. Sometimes they simply disappear after a few seconds without causing me any problems.
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Apple Magic Trackpad multitouch configuration
Today I installed the Ubuntu 10.10 release on my Desktop PC. I was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with an Apple Magic Trackpad and everything was working fine. After today's fresh installation of Ubuntu ...
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gpointing-device-settings lost on reboot
I've been using gpointing-device-settings to enable both two-finger and edge scrolling on my trackpad, but it seems to not "remember" after reboot. The settings are still "ticked" in ...
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How do I disable multimedia buttons on my laptop? The system sees them as a trackpad resulting in erratic behavior.
I have this Sony Vaio, VGN-CS16T, running 12.04. It is a chinese computer that has not been sold outside of south east asian markets. I don't read chinese, so I can't find a lot of support for it.
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Apple Magic Trackpad aftrer upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04 (64 Bit) - Multitouch not working!
The title describes my problem. On Ubuntu 11.10 Multi-touch worked fine on my Apple Magic Trackpad. Now i have only "ONE-FINGER-Control". Scrolling is only possible on the right side of the pad with ...
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Swapping the double and triple finger tap actions on trackpad
I am looking for a way to swap the 'tap' action when using two and three fingers. At the moment, as standard, double-finger-tapping right clicks, and tripple-finger-tapping middle clicks ... I would ...
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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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My trackpad doesn't turn on after I turn it off, before that it works
The trackpad on my ASUS laptop doesn't work after I press off and then on. Before I press off the first time it works well, afterwards it doesn't work even though the light indicator is on. This ...
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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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Middle mouse click emulation on trackpad, how can I set it?
I've just updated to Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm using Unity. Since the update I can no longer use 'Middle Clicks' with the Track-pad. Tab-browsing in Firefox has become a pain :(
I used to swap the 'three ...
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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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Trackpad Freezes often [closed]
I have newly installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my system and as soon as I start my system the trackpad freezes and I have to restart the system once again and there after every few minutes this keeps ...
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How can I get multitouch enabled on my Sentelic touchpad (msi x350 notebook)?
I understand my MSI x350 notebook comes with a Sentelic trackpad, which supports multi-touch (according to the MSI website). Is there a way to enable multitouch on Ubuntu? I've been having difficulty ...
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Macbook Trackpad very coarse
I recently installed Ubuntu on my Macbook. Everything seems to be working just fine except the trackpad. The right click (with 2 fingers) works just fine but when i try to scroll the cursor it is very ...
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Ignore finger resting at the bottom of trackpad [unibody macbook pro]
I have 2 finger scrolling working, and the three finger window movement works great, but something thats really bothering me is that I can't rest my thumb on the bottom of the trackpad like I can in ...
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Middle button on trackpad/point doesn't work with GNOME 3
I just upgraded my GUI from Unity to GNOME3.
There's one problem I'm having, though. Pointing Devices apparently loses functionality in GNOME3, but I need to be able to use my trackpoint.
Pointing ...
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How do I enable OSX-like three-finger swipes in 11.10 and 12.04?
In MacOSX the default settings is to move back/forward a page in Firefox when I do a three-finger swipe left/right.
In Unity, three-finger-swipes invokes window movement.
How can I configure ...
