Questions tagged [synaptics]
Synaptics Touchpad is a utility for configuring multitouch on laptop touchpads. Not to be confused with the Synaptic Package Manager, for which the "synaptic" tag should be used instead.
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How do I get a ProBook 640 G4 VFS495 to work on Kubuntu 23.10
On Kubuntu 23.10, my fingerprint won't detect. VFS 495 detected. lsusb output:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:706d Lite-On Technology Corp. ...
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Touchpad using libinput instead of synaptics driver
The touchpad on my lenovo x230 is not running the synaptics driver which I need for its increased capabilities. Instead, it's using libinput. How can I get the synaptics driver to take priority on ...
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Touchpad not detected
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 in the new Lenovo Z510 Ideapad laptop. To check if my Touchpad is detected I typed the command
xinput list
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I tried everything mentioned in this, ...
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Touchpad behaviour changes after hibernation on Ubuntu 22.04
When waking up from hibernation, the touchpad behaves different than before hibernation. It is usable, meaning I can move the cursor, use left and right click, scroll etc. but the behaviour changed. ...
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Multitouch with Touchegg on SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
I am running Ubuntu 14.10 with Unity. I would really like to make some multitouch gestures work, so I can use my touchpad to e.g. spread all windows, change workspace, and the like.
My computer has a ...
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Touchpad utilizes CPU even if totally disabled in BIOS and X
I have problems with CPU spikes from irq/204-rmi4_sm when I touch the touchpad in a Lenovo Thinkpad Extreme. I have disabled the Touchpad in BIOS as well as in X. However still the IRQ is fired every ...
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Native touchpad and keyboard are unresponsive on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS running on a HP ProBook 640 G2
My HP ProBook's (running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) touchpad and keyboard have been unresponsive for a while. As far as I can remember I haven't done any major updates. The problem started on the login page ...
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Touchpad in Sony Vaio E14 - cannot click with a finger and drag with another - Ubuntu 12.04
I had the following issues with my Sony Vaio E14115's touchpad on Ubuntu 12.04:
Right click not working
Vertical scrolling not working
Then I followed these steps to fix it:
Downloaded a patch ...
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I'm having some problems with my notebook's touchpad
I'm having some problems with my notebook's touchpad. This event appeared after I typed the command sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. The problem is that when I scroll up it goes down,...
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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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Synaptic Touchpad Not Working After 18.04LTS Clean Install
I have a dual Win10 boot and (K)ubuntu 18.04 on a Fujitsu Ultrabook UH572 i5/8GBram and (K)ubuntu is running on a 32GBSSD. After a clean install of (K)ubuntu 18.04 I noticed that the touchpad wasn't ...
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How to increase touchpad drag lock delay?
First off, by "drag lock" I mean that, whatever is being dragged with a normal touchpad drag, isn't released when the finger is lifted off the touchpad. Hence, having reached the edge of the ...
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Disable middle click with Wayland
I switched my ubuntu from 21.10 impish to 22.04 jammy which implied to leave x11 for wayland.
I prevented unsolicited selection paste or unwanted closed tabs by completely disabling middle click with ...
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Touchpad sensitivity on Dell XPS using Ubuntu 20.04
It seems to be a common problem that the touchpad is far too sensitive causing random jumps and clicks, but none of the suggestions I've found seem to work for me on:
Dell XPS 15 Model 9560
Ubuntu 20....
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How to disable touchpad completely on boot?
I wanted to disable touchpad before login on Ubuntu 16.10.
I had tried executing
#!/bin/bash
ID=$(/usr/bin/xinput list --id-only "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad")
if [[ $ID ]]; then
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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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Ubuntu 18 - Touchpad Buttons not working
I have installed Ubuntu 18 on my new Notebook
Everything works fine, except the right and left click Button of the touchpad. When I tap with one finger (left click) oder with two fingers (right click)...
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Synaptics or libinput: which is being used?
I do not know what libinput and synaptics exactly are or do, but it seems that at least one of them must be installed to use devices such as touchpad.
On my Xubuntu 22.04 these packages are installed:
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How can I enable palm detection for Synaptics touchpad in my laptop?
I checked the Synaptics touchpad configuration using terminal, but what I saw is that palm detection was set to 0 like in the picture below.
From my experience, 0 means 'FALSE'. This means NO PALM ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 How to disable two finger scrolling completely
I am really struggling with Ubuntu22.04 upgrade and my synaptics touchpad on Acer Aspire E15 (E5-574G-54Y2) laptop. Everything was working just great before the 22.04 upgrade but now, the touchpad ...
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How to disable Synaptics Touchpad from detecting finger on buttons area as a second finger for gesture
So i'm using Xubuntu 22.04.3 (jammy) all up to date and would like to know how to disable a second finger detection that acts as scroll gesture on Synaptics touchpad (the red area in the illustration ...
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How can I get absolute touchpad coordinates
From what I understand, earlier versions of the Synaptic driver in Ubuntu had an 'absolute mode' for the trackpad which allowed the user to access absolute coordinates as well as relative coordinates. ...
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HP 2000 Laptop Touchpad Not Responding in Ubuntu and Windows ;External Mouse Works Fine
I'm facing a persistent issue with the touchpad on my HP 2000 laptop, which is dual-booted with Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 7. The touchpad is unresponsive and doesn't register any clicks or touches, ...
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Disable multitap on touchpad
I need to disable multitap on the Synaptics touchpad on my Kubuntu 22.04 notebook because I frequently paste the clipboard by accident. I still need any number of fingers (at least one finger) to be a ...
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Touchpad two finger drag as middle click drag
I'm using an apple magic trackpad 2 on a fresh install, everything works great gestures and all.
However in Blender behavior is quite different, two fingers zooms in and out when it should orbit the ...
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Missing mouse/touchpad options (Ubuntu 16.04)
It seems I've lost some of my mouse and touchpad settings:
As it is, I can move the pointer with the touchpad, but there's no tap-to-click and it's set to non-natural two-finger scrolling.
So far, I'...
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How to set up synaptics touchpad for smaller fingers?
How to set up Synaptics for smaller fingers. With my habitual pressing, it doesn't respond. You'll have to put your fingertip instead of the top.
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Mouse cursor shaking when not using mouse (Lubuntu 22.04 LTA)
I have recently installed lubuntu on my pc and everything works fine except the cursor, i have tried many things including using synclient but it just says "Synclient not found,but can be ...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 20.04LTS?
Is it still possible to use synaptics for touchpad driver with Ubuntu 20.04LTS? I have installed server-xorg-input-synaptics, renamed files so that synaptics has priority over libinput
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Adaptive acceleration for touchpad on Ubuntu 17.10
I recently updated from Ubuntu 16.04 running Unity to 17.10 running GNOME. Since the upgrade, I'm missing the adaptive acceleration feature on my touchpad. I absolutely loved it because it was more ...
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Issues with Libinput, but then again also issues with switching to Synaptic drivers
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 with i3wm.
I have a script which sets some settings. But since I'm using libinput, some of those commands result in an error:
property 'Synaptics Scrolling Distance' doesn't exist, ...
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Dell touchpad replaced - not working in Ubuntu
Dell Precision 5550. Ubuntu 22.04
Recently replaced the keyboard + touchpad since the keyboard was broken. Ever since the touchpad doesn't work anymore in Ubuntu.
It looks to be a software / driver ...
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Permanently Disable Touchpad - Lubuntu 16.04
So here's the deal, my touchpad on my Gateway T-1623 is basically broken. As a result, I use an external plug and play mouse. I can use the keyboard just fine, however, if I inadvertently so much as ...
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Something over-writes my start-up script defined calls to "xinput set-prop" and "synclient [property]=". How can I find out what is causing this?
I am trying to enable synaptics touchpad "natural scrolling" on startup, based on the registry key "EnableNaturalScrolling".
if [ $ENS -eq 1 ] && [ $VSD -gt 0 ] ; then
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Enable touchpad from command line Ubuntu 18.04
I have seen several putative answers to my question, but none of them work.
Generally I keep the touchpad switched off, since it seems to play hell with the pointer jumping about into unwanted places....
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Scrolling on touchpad too fast, property 'Synaptics Scrolling Distance' doesn't exist
The scrolling of my touchpad is too fast, and I tried using this solution here (as there is no setting for changing the scrollspeed, for some reason)
I've installed the Synapsis driver using this ...
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Scrolling jumpy, scroll speed too fast, mouse acceleration weird
I'm currently switching from windows to ubuntu, and there are some very annoying things that just kill the whole experience.
if you use the touchpad, you scroll at lightspeed. I tried some scripts ...
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Touchpad bugs: 2 fingers scroll stops working, sensitivity increases, cursor moving on its own after a move
On Ubuntu 20.04, my Touchpad is having weird bugs that start at random moments that I couldn't link to any special activity. It seems to just start randomly.
Here are the different effects that I can ...
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There is no two finger scroll option in my "Mouse and Touchpad" settings
I simply do not have the option for "two-finger scrolling" available in my "Mouse and Touchpad" settings. I have tried a lot of terminal commands that I have found in the forums with no success. Who ...
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Touchpad recognized, but cursor not moving
I updated to 18.04 LTS. (I am not quite sure whether this is the reason for the problem, but since this and this posts are describing the same problem...)
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usb-mouse is ...
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Touchpad suddenly stopped working on Kubuntu 17.04
I've been using Kubuntu 17.04 for a few months now. Today, when I started my computer, the touchpad wasn't working and I have no idea why.
I googled for a while, and found many people having this ...
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Changing limit of vertical scroll area on touchpad 22.04
The default area which is dedicated to the vertical scroll function on my Lenovo G580 touchpad is far too large (approx. 50% of the whole touchpad). I have a workaround whereby every time I boot up ...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
There is a problem with my laptop — jumping cursor. I think the hardware is the source of the problem. Maybe toucpad is just very inaccurate when getting finger coordinates and touching events.
On ...
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What is the Wayland equivalent of xinput and synclient and ~/.xprofile?
Ubuntu (21.10 now) wants us to use Wayland instead of X11 but how to do this in Wayland:
mac2011-linux% more ~/.xprofile
## emulate middle with double click
# xinput set-prop 12 353 1
## avoid ...
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Touchpad doesn't work properly Dell Inspiron-3542
Good evening Community,
It has been two years when my laptop suddenly stopped working, and it was not possible to turn it on. Many circuits on the motherboard burned out, and due to the Pandemic, we ...
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Trackpad not working correctly on a Lenovo Yoga 9i AFTER logging into XORG. Touchpad works fine from login screen
So basically, after logging in, I can only move my mouse via touchpad if I press down on it to click. If I am not clicking and try moving it, the mouse will sometimes be able to move about an inch, ...
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Touchpad two finger scroll too fast. Synaptics not working
I am currently running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Lenovo Ideapad L340. The touchpad two-finger scrolling is too fast.
Tried Solutions like: xinput --set-prop <id> 'Synaptics Scrolling Distance' 8 8
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SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad doesn't work on Ubuntu 20.04 on dynabook
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on dynabook GX83. My Touchpad is not working at all however the USB mouse is working correctly. Though I'd like to use the Touchpad. I searched and tried a lot of commands but ...
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Disabling touchpad after suspend/resume
There are several questions about disabling touchpads on laptops on this site, but none of them seem to quite answer my question.
I want to disable my touchpad (I've done that bit) and keep it ...
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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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