Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpad/trackpads.
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Magic Trackpad 2 is not recognized as synpatic touchpad
I have found a lot of posts in 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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How to configure touchpad tap sensitivity?
Since I upgraded to 17.10, touchpad tap sensitivity is too low, and frequently misses my taps. I know that the system has figured out that my Lenovo Yoga 2 has a Synaptics touchpad:
$ sudo evtest
No ...
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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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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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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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Are there any good external trackpad devices that work well with Ubuntu?
Are there any good external trackpads that work well with Ubuntu? So far, I've found that the Logitech T650 should work, but it seems to be discontinued and out of stock in most places. I've got RSI ...
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How to enable natural scrolling for GNOME terminal in 14.04?
I'm newbie to Ubuntu, freshly installed 14.04 on Dell Inspiron laptop.
I enabled 'two finger scrolling' and 'natural scrolling' from 'Mouse and Touchpad' settings. Natural scrolling with two-finger ...
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Making custom synaptics touchpad config persistent not working
I'm struggling to make my custom touchpad persistent.
I very well know the config I want.
Here's the command, using synclient:
synclient RightButtonAreaLeft=0 RightButtonAreaTop=0 ClickTime=20 ...
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How do I get three finger click to work on my touchpad? (middle click works with laser/optical mouse)
Running Ubuntu 15.10 on a 4 year old laptop, and while the touchpad driver I'm using works very well with scrolling and two finger clicking, I cannot figure out how to get three finger clicking to ...
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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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Mouse and keyboard not working when i resume after suspend ubuntu 14.04
I installed ubuntu 14.04 on my Dell inspiron 5537 by USB. Everything worked fine, but after i resume my computer from suspend my touch-pad and my keyboard are not responding. So, i tried to reinstall ...
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Elantech touchpad annoying behaviour (gestures don't work well)
I am having problems with my Touchpad Elantech on Acer Aspire E1-572G. I tried both Ubuntu 16 and 17 (and also other Linux distros), but no luck.
My problem is that the gestures (two-finger tap for ...
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Touchpad stops working after waking up
I just installed Ubuntu 17.10 and when I suspend my laptop and then open the lid, to wake it, my touchpad isn't working anymore.
Can anyone help me with this? My keyboard is working fine, but my ...
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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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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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ubuntu 16.10amd64 - Surface pro 3, power cover keyboard
There are a ton of questions about the Surface device and getting the type cover to work. My non-power cover works fine, except for the trackpad. I'm trying to use "dmesg" to add support for my power ...
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xps15 touchpad pressure too sensitive. Settings have no effects
I have a dell xps15 on which I installed kubuntu.
I managed to configure everything I want about the touchpad, except for the touch pressure sensitivity. Barely brushing on the touchpad will register ...
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Asus X556U touch pad not working
After my laptop (Asus X556U) boots Ubuntu, the touchpad is not working.xinput command lists my touchpad as Elan Touchpad. I tried to enable & disable the touchpad, but still it is not working. But ...
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Multitouch and Headphone White Noise on Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VM with Ubuntu 16.04
I have installed Ubuntu on my Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VM and I have two problems : I've partly fixed the headphone noise and I have no clue for the touchpad
I can't use 2 finger scolling and other ...
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Touchpad device has a malformed name (tab character included), how to fix it?
My touchpad can be detected as a USB device,
$ lsusb | grep touchpad
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 06cb:2970 Synaptics, Inc. touchpad
But when it is queried by xinput or libinput-list-devices, it has a ...
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Touchpad settings not available on ubuntu 16.04 for dell latitude
I did a fresh install of ubuntu 16.04 on my new latitude E5570. The mouse/touchpad settings only has the General and Mouse sections, nothing to change the touchpad options (like inverse scroll). The ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 failing to suspend and opening applications by itself
I have a very strange problem. After installing stock Ubuntu 16.04, I noticed that whenever I close the lip on my laptop and come back a few hours later, every application (on the launcher) is running ...
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Xubuntu 16.04 Xenial: How can I enable touchpad?
I've an Asus x540LA and my touchpad is seen by the system so:
[from /proc/bus/input/devices]
I: Bus=0018 Vendor=0b05 Product=0101 Version=0100
N: Name="FTE1001:00 0B05:0101"
P: Phys=i2c-FTE1001:00
S:...
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Surface 3 Pro - Touchpad 2-finger-gestures
I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 with the newest kernel on my SP3. Everything works fine except the touchpad, there is no option to activate two-finger-scrolling and 2-finger-tap-right-click.
I've found ...
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Touchpad middle click and gestures
How can i customize gestures listed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch.
I can use these gestures:
3 finger double tap -> switches to previous window
3 finger tap followed by 3-fingers hold -> ...
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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 14.04 64Bit : Cursor lag when mouse cursor changes?
I'm facing the exact same issue as mentioned in the link but on Ubuntu 14.04 64 Bit.
Problem Facing:
Mouse pointer freezes for around 300 ms whenever the cursor icon changes:
On hovering from text ...
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Touchpad scroll not working after an update
I have updated ubuntu 14.04. Previously the touchpad scrolling worked but after updating, it doesn't work. I have tried several things but keep failing. Here's the screenshot
I also have installed ...
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Touchpad detected properly but does not function Ubuntu 15.10
I'm relatively new to linux so I apologize if this ends up being a simple answer.
I have a Dell Inspiron 14 3452 laptop that is running Ubuntu 15.10. So far I have everything working except the ...
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Dedicated Trackpoint buttons don't work correctly
Setup: Lenovo W541, Ubuntu 14.04
Problem: The (hardware, not software) buttons above my touchpad don't work correctly. Left and right click seem to work like the up and down arrow keys, scrolling a ...
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Lenovo synaptics clickpad dead zones (click and drag issues)
A while back, I bought a Lenovo Yoga 2 11 (Model 20332), and promptly set it up to dual boot ubuntu. So far it's been a fantastic machine, however there's one thing that keeps me rebooting into ...
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No touchpad and keyboard on Toshiba Sattelite at start
I have a big problem because I can't log in to Ubuntu on my computer, because when I see the login screen, nothing works.
Originally, I solved the problem using this soplution (I pressed NumLock when ...
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Touchpad Options missing from System Settings
I have a Razer Blade 14" running 14.04. When I start the computer rarely will the touchpad options appear in the settings. When they do, it works fine. More often than not, however, the settings are ...
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How to get apps to scroll smoothly AND real-time? (don't drive me in the arms of Apple!)
On my Desktop I've been using Ubuntu for about 7 years now, and I love it. I now recently installed Ubuntu on my Macbook Air alongside Mac OSX. I know my way around Ubunt very well, but there is one ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 gnome touchpad gestures
I want to extend the touchpad gestures of the system, I've ran into touchegg but in my case it did not work. I've read its not working on ubuntu 14.04 gnome environment.
Any help is appreciated. I ...
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Can anyone help with fixing the touch pad on my Chromebook?
For the record I have installed Xubuntu, through Chrubuntu, on my Toshiba C35 Chromebook. I knew coming in that there would be some hardware issues, and for the most part, I got the other issues fixed ...
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Could Touchpad-Indicator be conflicting with Dropbox?
OK, I've done a fair bit of searching on this topic, and while I've found several similar situations, I can't find any information on my specific issue.
I'm running a relatively new/clean ...
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Unstable Mouse Pointer using Synaptics Touchpad
I have a Sony VAIO SVE1711W1E laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x64. The mouse pointer when I'm using the Synaptics touchpad is really inaccurate, when tapping the touchpad the pointer jumps to another ...
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touchpad behavior with click and hold
After updating my relese 14.04, I have observed a modification in the behavior of the tap and hold feature. Before I was able to do this (if I wanted to select a large area of text for example):
- ...
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Is there a “show touches” application?
Is there an application that will "show touches" similar to what is found in Android's developer options?
I have a 10 point multitouch monitor (Planar Helium PCT2785) and it appears to only support ...
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How to Configure Clickpad?
I am running xubuntu 13.10 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It works very well, except the behaviour of my clickpad (touchpad where the buttons are built into the surface) makes it essentially unusable....
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How can I set up gestures in Kubuntu?
I would like to do the following thing: scroll down with three fingers => windows presentation from all Desktops (equivalent to Ctrl+F10).
The question is "How can I do it?" :)
I have (quite) ...
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How to activate my touchpad features on Samsung Series 7 Chronos
I'm just looking to how enable the features of my touchpad on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.10. The mouse is working but none of the features are working (like two fingers scrolling up/down).
I visited ...
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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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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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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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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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How to Remove Ubuntu 17.10 touchpad acceleration
I've installed ubuntu 17.10. There is touchpad acceleration and I want to remove it. How can I do this? Things I've tried:
Using Gnome tweak tools but it does not have an option for touchpad ...
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I disabled mouse acceleration on my laptop, but now my mouse speed doesn't change
I have a Lenovo Y710 laptop that is running Ubuntu 16.04, my mouse is the Logitech marathon M705. I'm running a fresh boot and have been going over basic settings. This is my first time using Linux. I ...
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Click & drag with keyboard shortcut
The "click down" key on my laptop touchpad requires too much force, making it difficult to click & drag. I would like to solve this by holding down a keyboard shortcut while dragging along the ...
