Questions tagged [touchpad]
Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpads/trackpads.
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Touchegg at Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, multi touch not working
I've installed touchegg via sudo apt-get install touchegg, and also touchegg-gce.
And I am using Apple Magic Trackpad.
My problem is three (or four, five) touch is not responded, and my cursor stop ...
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touchpad Detected but not working in Ubuntu 14.04 on toshiba satellite p75 a7200
I have a toshiba satalite that I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on and it runs great. But the touchpad does not work. I plugged in a usb mouse and it worked fine but the laptop touchpad wont work. I ...
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Multi-Finger Gestures in 14.04
I'm running 14.04 on a Lenovo Y500. I want to get multi-touch gestures running, specifically a three-finger swipe to switch desktops. I would like to keep using the Unity interface, so I can't use ...
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The touchpad on my Thinkpad (T420) no longer works in 14.04. Why?
The Fn+F8 keyboard shortcut which used to toggle between the touchpad, legendary thinkpad red pointing device button thingy in the middle of the keyboard, and both, no longer does anything apart from ...
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logitech t650 tap to click still not registering?
I upgraded my firmware as suggested in this reddit link, but I still can't seem to trigger left clicks or right clicks via tapping. Its driving me crazy now as I still need to thumb press the physical ...
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Recommended touch-compatible Wacom Device
I need to use a touch "mouse" on my desktop PC, which works with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Theoretically, a Wacom Tablet should be Linux compatible, but there are blog posts which indicate that ...
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Any Synaptics driver for HP 255 G2?
Does anyone know how I can rectify the problem of not being able to use my touch pad at all on my HP 255 G2?
I am currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and have to use a USB mouse, which is tiresome when ...
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Lenovo Ideapad Unstable Touchpad Cursor
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and there is a problem with the touchpad. Whenever I lift my finger from the touchpad or click, the cursor moves a little bit to a random ...
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TouchPad not working Dell Latitude E5420
After installing Ubuntu 14.04 on Dell Latitude E5420 (I have windows 7 ultimate also installed) The mouse touchpad does not work. I am very new to linux and Ubuntu. Can someone help with easy step-by-...
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How may I deactivate the touchpad under Ubuntu 14.04?
I'd like to deactivate the touchpad permanently. (BTW: This should be included in the ubuntu-settings.)
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trackpad configuration settings
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on a System76 Galago UltrPro. I have not been able to configure the trackpad and get the settings to stick. I am trying to change the sensitivity and palm detection, those ...
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Touchpad not working after connecting hdmi cable
I had installed Ubuntu 14.04 2 weeks back on my new laptop along side Windows 8. 1. And it was working fine. But yesterday after I connected Ubuntu with my TV using the HDMI cable, the cursor/ pointer ...
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xmodmap pointer setting doesn't affect all applications
I have a laptop designed for windows 8 and running ubuntu 14.04. Because it is designed for windows 8, the touchpad is backwards. The scroll bars on the side and top are reversed so that it feels like ...
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How do I get the touchpad working on an Asus x450L?
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple of weeks now and have been surviving without my touchpad.
I have Asus x450L laptop. Are there drivers available so my trackpad will function again?
It works 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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mouse and touchpad settings missing
I am using the latest version of ubuntu 14.04 in the new lenovo Z510 ideapad laptop. I came across this problem while i was trying to enable my two-finger swipe action. Usually the mouse and touchpad ...
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Touchpad track speed increases in dual monitor setup
I have a Dell E6530 with an Alps touchpad, NVIDIA NVS 5200 with proprietary nvidia-319.32 video driver installed.
I am using xfce4 although I do not know if this makes a difference, as it seems to be ...
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“psmouse.ko' not found” installing ALPS touchpad in a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 14
I was following this instructions with Ubuntu 14.04.
https://github.com/he1per/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7 and psmouse serio1: alps: Unknown ALPS touchpad in a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 15
And after many tries I ...
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touchpad does not stay disabled
Is there a way to keep my touchpad disabled?
I have a thinkpad E420s. I have disabled the touchpad because the built in buttons are too hard to click without moving the cursor. I just use the red ...
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Multitouch gesture in Ubuntu 14.04
I got new T440s first thing I did was Ubuntu installation. To be honest I'm Mac's user, I have macbook air, that's why I'm used to some gestures on my touchpad. I was so disappointed when I realized ...
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Sluggish/Unresponsive Mouse in 14.04 [duplicate]
Just upgraded from 13 to 14.04 and the mouse on the touchpad is slow and/or unresponsive when dragging around the screen. No issue whatsoever in 13.
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touchpad won't respond immediately
This is more of a pet-peeve item, but I recently updated from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04, and it looks great, but my touchpad is a bit "sticky". It doesn't move right away, and I have to drag it a ...
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Touch-pad swipe guestures
Is there any way to get the 2 finger swipe to scroll gesture in Ubuntu? It was present in Windows 8.1 before I switched to Ubuntu. I am using the new Lenove Ideapad Z510 laptop.
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How to turn off the Touchpad so it STAYS off!
Ver 14.04
In System Settings -> Mouse & Touchpad, I set "Touchpad" to OFF. This works fine until I reboot the computer.... then the "Touchpad" is back ON. Is it possible to turn it off and have ...
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Appletouch not working properly Lubuntu
I just made a clean install of Lubuntu 14.04 on a Macbook 3,1, and I got most of the hardware working except for the touchpad. Two fingers are recognized because I can scroll through websites, ...
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Advanced inertial scrolling configuration
Is it possible configure the synaptic inertial scrolling in a way so it is disrupted when any key is pressed on the keyboard?
To explain this question: I often use shortcuts. Now when I am for ...
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HP Compaq TC4200 problems
I have a hp compaq tc4200 and the headphone jack doesn't work it acts like nothing's plugged in. I've tried any solution i could find and most did nothing at all at best and some forced me to re-...
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Install Ubuntu 14.04 abort due to weired mouse move with ASUS R409C
When I try to install Ubuntu 14.04, on an ASUS R409C, the touchpad works fine until the language selection step. Then the cursor periodically moves to left (about 1cm at once) up to the edge of the ...
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Weird pointer+mouse+touchpad functionality in Ubuntu + ASUS X550L
I have an ASUS X550L. When I try to install ubuntu (any version), my touchpad does not work during the installation and mouse also acts weired such that some buttons cannot be clicked with the mouse. ...
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Upgrade to 14.04: sticky/unresponsive touchpad - requires more pressure?
I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite C50D from 12.04 to 14.04. Everything works great except the touchpad. Strangely, it is working, but it is noticeably unresponsive and feels "sticky". With ...
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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 issue: jumping cursor while typing (Ubuntu 14.04), syndaemon don't help
I know there are other questions about this issue, but I can't find the right tweak in order to fix it.
The touchpad still detects my palms while typing stuff. It's REALLY annoying, especially ...
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ubuntu 14.04 touchpad settings disappeared on dell latitude e5530
after the release upgrade to 14.04, the touchpad settings disappeared on my dell latitude e5530. Has anyone the same problem? Do you know how to solve it?
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Synaptic touchpad stopped working
After working several days continuously with a USB mouse, yesterday I noticed that my touchpad was not working.
I've been using Windows as well this days, so, my first thought was that I could have ...
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Holding touchpad button detect multitouch
I just swiched over to Kubuntu from Windows. Everything works for now, except 1 thing realy bothers me.
I have asus N750 with touchpad.
In windows, if I had my finger placed on left button, I was ...
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Help to disable the multi-touch gestures in 14.04?
Does anyone know how to disable the multi-touch gestures for the touch-pad, specifically the application switcher and Unity launcher?
I have a Asus C710 Chromebook with Ubuntu 14.04 installed ...
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Trouble with touchpad&mouse scroll
I have notebook HP compaq 6720s with ubuntu 14.04. Mouse scroll work ok, but scroll on touchpad is reversed. I trying to configurate touchpad in Ubuntu tweak, result: touchpad scroll works ok, but ...
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touchpad does not work on Asus X450L
I resently installed ubuntu 14.04 on my ASUS X450L.
It runs quite statisfactory, only the touchpad of the laptop does not function.
Is there any solution for this?
The bios setting is 'enabled'
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Fujitsu lifebook ah552 touch pad sensitivity and side scrolling problem
Last week I bought a Fujitsu Lifebook AH552 for just INR 29000/- it is the cheapest laptop available here (Kerala, India). With below configuration;
RAM : 4GB
Processor : Intel® Core™ i3-3120M CPU @ ...
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how to disable all Multi touch or just a few
I have a trackpad that even the right and left click buttons are part of the touch surface. So when I use my middle finger to move the mouse and my point finger to click ( like in a click and drag ...
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VirtualBox USB Tablet not recognized in Ubuntu 12.04.4
My touchpad is not recognized in Ubuntu 12.04.4 running in VirtualBox 4.2.16. It is working fine in Ubuntu 14.04.
Is there some trick to get this working? I am really missing the two finger scroll ...
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Synaptics touchpad not detected while switching user on Unity
Synaptics touch pad is detected and works well if a single user is logged in . However if we swtich to another user , mouse no longer works for the second user . You could either switch using the Lock/...
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Synaptics touchpad synclient TapButton2 option
I have a problem with my touchpad configuration. I would like to change the two-finger behaviour to middle button click, instead of right button. So I type in the console:
synclient TapButton2=2
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How do I enable OS X style 2 finger scolling in Dell Latitude 6430u?
I've got a Dell Latitude 6430u running Trusty. I can enable 2 finger scrolling, but it's a bizarre mode where if I put one finger down I can scroll with the other.
I would like to have OS X style two ...
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Ubuntu 14.04, how to set middle mouse emulation? (no taps, real buttons)
I looked for the topic, but I only find information on how to have middle click emulation (wheel click) using taps with N fingers.
I want to have the emulation with the real buttons under the ...
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state of multitouch gestures in 14.04 / Unity
This seems like one of the most-asked items around here, but the Ubuntu dev team has been making changes fast in this area, so recent information is important.
I'm on a macbook pro 9,2.
When I ...
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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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I disabled my touchpad, and now there's no option to reenable it on Ubuntu 14.04
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop(Lenovo Z400). Last night I disabled the touchpad, because I was using external mouse. Today I tried reenabling the touchpad, but there isn't that option any more ...
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