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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Lenovo T460p Synaptics Touchpad
I recently changed to Ubuntu and try to configure my touchpad now. Such as multi-touch geasture to zoom in or I want to use the top-left corner of the touchpad to go back on websites (top-right corner ...
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How do I configure an Alps Trackpad?
I need to disable tap to click before I go insane but I have been unable to.
I am using an HP Elitebook x360 G2 laptop. It has an Alps trackpad.
I am unable to configure it using xinput because it ...
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Adjusting edge scroll boundaries for touchpad in 17.10
Previously with X.org and all, synclient and xinput were pretty good when it came to customization. Now after 17.10 and Wayland I can't use synclient to make fine adjustments to my touch pad anymore, ...
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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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Touchpad sensitivity decreases after suspend
It's the first time I'm asking a question here but I've checked tons of forums looking for the answer, be sure.
My machine is ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2014.
I'm having a fresh install of 17.10 (this ...
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Upgraded from 16.04 to 17.04 caused a lot of mouse issues
Mouse settings now only has three settings (primary button, double-click, and pointer speed).
Scrolling has no momentum now. It only scrolls while your fingers are on the touchpad. The moment they ...
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Touchpad properties won't change with xinput
I am running ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Dell Inspiron 7657
First confusion
xinput returns the following at terminal:
mutliple touchpads
as you can see in the above image, there are two ID's assigned to ...
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Where are settings for drag-and-drop touchpad behavior?
I use "tap to click", so when I'm performing a click-and-drag, I tap-tap-drag. If my finger reaches the edge of the touchpad and I still need to drag the cursor farther, I quickly lift and place my ...
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Right click on touchpad produces left click [duplicate]
Description of problem:
I am using Dual boot OS having Windows 10 as primary OS and Ubuntu 16.04 as secondary OS in Dell Vostro 15 3568 laptop.
In Ubuntu,Clicking the right-click area on the ...
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Reverse two-finger scroll gesture not working in menu
I am on a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series running Zorin OS 12.2 (I know this forum is for Ubuntu, but it is based on Ubuntu 16.04.2, and I am pretty sure this issue will be the same on either OS).
I ...
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how to edit Synaptics Capabilities , right touchpad button is not working
Can you help me enable my right click button of my touchpad? Please, find out my Synaptics Capabilities.
I am using Ubuntu 16.04
xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities
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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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EasyNote TE11HC touchpad not working
I'm new to Linux, I installed Ubuntu 17.04 on my laptop and have no touchpad activity (tap, click, scroll), the external USB mouse works fine but would prefer the touchpad. My touchpad does not appear ...
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Touchpad freezing, detection issues, 17.10 on Acer Swift 1
Recently picked up an Acer Swift SF113 and installed Xubuntu 17.04. Touchpad will usually work perfectly for a while, but then freezes or stops responding. Haven't figured out a pattern as to what ...
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Elan Touchpad Physical Buttons Drag but not click
I have an Elan Touchpad on an ASUS ROG G752VL which has both tap to click and phyical left and right buttons. Using Synaptics driver, the touchpad works very accurately. However, the left phyical ...
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Touchpad not working on ACER Aspire LT Model V3-471G with 16.04
Went through the past archives extensively to find a solution to this, none of them worked. OS, Ubuntu 16.04.3 TLS, H/W ACER Aspire LT Model V3-471G, BIOS Version 1.18, processor i5-3210m, 2.5 GHz. ...
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Why does the XPS 9550 touchpad stop working sporadically?
Running Ubuntu 17.04 with kernel 4.11.12.
I have a thread (thread) over at UbuntuForums and I've been searching for a fix for two days now. Working just fine just after login the tap to click function ...
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Disable double tap (but keep one tap to click enabled) on touchpad
I normally used the intuitive touchpad options on my MacBook Air under macOS (i.e. tap to click, three finger swipe to change desktops, three finger swipe up to show the window manager...) and want to ...
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Setting up Synaptics Touchpad Gestures in 2017
I have a lenovo t450s and it has a synaptics touchpad. In windows there are lots of gestures supported. In ubuntu 17.04, the only ones working are two finger vertical scrolling and right-click with 2-...
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Changes in 50-synaptics.config File have no effect. Are they being Overritten?
Changes to the 50-synaptics.config file have no effect.
Would like to change resolution.
I have added
Option "VertResolution" "20"
Option "HorizResolution" "20"
Please check out the log file. Maybe ...
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Touchpad working intermitently on Kubuntu 17.04
I've got Kubuntu 17.04 installed on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and I'm having some weird issues with the touchpad. It doesn't seem to be consistently working. Sometimes after a boot, it works just fine. ...
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Synaptics and display issue
I'm facing this issue where synaptics shows up as a display for me each time I start my laptop.
All I've got right now is screenshots but don't know where to look to find more logs related to this ...
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I can't change vertical/horizontal resolution of my touchpad
I have changed settings in the 50-synaptics.conf file as stated in this thread:
Change touchpad horizontal and vertical acceleration/sensitivity?
I have added:
Option "VertResolution" "75"
Option "...
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Is it possible to automatically lock direction of two finger scroll on touchpad [duplicate]
There is one feature that is available on Windows and which I would really love to discover on Linux. It works the following way.
Suppose I have an area which I can scroll both vertically and ...
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sudo apt-get update failure 14.04 LTS [duplicate]
I have tried from several PC's. All the places we only get three lines of error
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu....
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Disable Tap to Click on Haier Y11b
I have installed ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Haier Y11b
Its touchpad is very bad at guessing tap while we move finger over it.
I want to disable TAP to click, unfortunately this setting is not there in ...
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gpointing-device-settings isn't working - ubuntu 17.04
gpointing-device-settings isn't working. It doesn't work when I click 'apply' and it doesn't work after a restart. I'm trying to turn off mousepad tapping on my laptop, a dell 5577. I am using ubuntu ...
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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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Configuring Dell touchpad to fix jumpy cursor
I am running ubuntu 16.04 on a dell inspiron touch screen module. Wheever I type my touchpad jumps. I have tried an array of guides on this forum but nothing worked well for me.
$xinput list
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Ubuntu 17.04 after resume VPN is lost, synclient resets, and cursor freezes for 15 seconds
Laptop: Samsung NP900X5N-X01US
Ubuntu Version: 17.04-20
Shell: Gnome
When resuming from sleep, the cursor freezes for about 15 seconds and sometimes even the keyboard locks up during that period.
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dell latitude e6530 Touchpad not working
my touchpad doesn't work and i don't remember what i did to it.
here is the output of
xinput list
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core ...
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Two finger scrolling not working in Ubuntu 16.04
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu to find two finger scrolling in my touchpad was no longer working. I came across this post and it shows that I should be having that option in my system settings. However,...
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i3 synclient has no natural scrolling
I try to get natural scrolling with my touchpad working. Currently I am using synclient to set the touchpad configs. I have this in my .i3/config:
exec --no-startup-id synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 ...
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Incorrect touchpad inputs, only scrolls up/down, strange mouse behavior
I am struggling to deal with strange behavior that started 'out of the blue', not after an update or anything.
First, the input to the touchpad is being incorrectly registered, and my touchpad ...
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Synaptics touchpad settings reset after waking from suspend
I have my touchpad configured to register a 3 finger tap as middle-click using
synclient TapButton3=2
This works well, so I have set this command up to automatically run some seconds after login ...
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Dell XPS 15 - Trackpad Sensitivity
I feel like this issue has been raised hundreds of times, but my trackpad is way too sensitive!
I've attempted to change the trackpad sensitivity by setting the "Synaptics Finger" values through "...
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Trouble configuring xorg to disable touchpad [duplicate]
I'm trying to follow the solution in this thread to disable extra touchpad device so that syndaemon will work to disable the touchpad while typing so I won't keep having a jumping cursor (very hard ...
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How to ENABLE touchpad tap-to-click while typing? Configuration keeps resetting every few seconds
I want to (temporarily) disable the feature that disables touchpad tap-to-click while I am typing on my keyboard to be able to play games that require simultaneous interaction via mouse and keyboard ...
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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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Unable to set default values for SynPS/2 Synaptic
Today i noticed that my trackpad was not responding to click events, click and drag and two finger scrolling. (I mostly use a mouse, so i can't assure you, when did it all started)
I looked up and ...
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How to roll back touchpad driver to synaptic?
I wanted to try gnome3, I followed omg ubuntu's guide which was basically adding the PPA
Everything was working great except it wasn't, I was getting low on root under 600 MB, so I had to uninstall ...
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Middle click with touchpad on Ubuntu 16.04
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a DELL XPS 13 and my middle click on my touchpad is not working. I tried three-finger-tap and the top right corner.
I even looked in synclient and it shows the correct ...
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Touchpad can't be detected( Surface Pro 3)
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Razer Razer Abyssus ...
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MacBook No Keyboard Input after xserver-xorg-input-synaptics install
I, maybe stupidly, installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to try to turn tap-to-click off.
Well, it worked, but now I have no keyboard input at all.
I can't use the terminal. Luckily I have no ...
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Lenovo touchpad issues on 710S, and settung global play / stop button for media
I recently switched from a Mac to Ubuntu, having now a Lenovo 710S-13ISK.
So far so good, everything is working but some touchpad issues where I therefore ask here for help.
The tap to click (also ...
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Synaptics Clickpad double-clicking on hard click
So, I've been dealing with this problem for a while and decided to do something about it today. I'm dual booting Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 on a Lenovo Yoga 13, and about half the time when I do a "...
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Disabling Touchpad While Typing
When I type, I constantly hit the touchpad which makes it click elsewhere. This pretty much makes it unusable for me. Usually I would run:
synclient MaxTapTime=0
but I get
Couldn't find synaptics ...
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Why is the "start" menu being opened when I do two Super+w actions through touchegg configured finger swipes?
I have touchegg configured so that up or down three finger swipes triggers Super+w:
<gesture type="DRAG" fingers="3" direction="UP">
<action type="SEND_KEYS">Super+w</action>
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Synaptics ClickPad jumping on selection
I just got Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my new ThinkPad E460 and it happens to have one of those "clickpads" where the buttons are hidden under the touchpad (like apple computers).
The problem is when I drag ...
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Touchpad and keybroard problems after 16.04.1 installation
My keyboard is very slow to respond and the cursor is jumpy, lagging, and clicks on things randomly when using touchpad. Both keyboard and touchpad worked fine in live USB and for a day after ...
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