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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 15.10(Gnome)
Open a terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+t and type:
synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2
it worked for me...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
I had the same problem and basically solved it by following Ryko's advice.
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
... did the trick. I didn't uninstall libinput like Pilot6 said and libinput ...
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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop
This bug is reported in launchpad: Elantech touchpad stops working after suspend. After suspend the OP tries # modprobe -r psmouse and # modprobe psmouse and it doesn't work. But what if psmouse was ...
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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop
The following solution worked for me on my Acer Predator Helios 300 running Ubuntu 18.04 (5.0.0-36-generic) when all else did not-
Check if the solution works
Try running the following command after ...
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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 15.10(Gnome)
I finally found a fix to solve my problem:
I added the following line to my bashrc so that it can compile every time I log in.
synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2
Although not a pretty ...
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Permanently Disable Touchpad - Lubuntu 16.04
I believe so. You'll have to use a few commands and make a startup script, but you know the former and the latter isn't hard to do.
First, run xinput list. Your output should be similar to the ...
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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 15.10(Gnome)
Have you updated the mouse settings? After updating I had the same issue, but it was just that tap to click had been disabled.
Otherwise, according to this thread it could be worth logging out and ...
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Fully disable "tap and drag gesture" for synaptics touchpad
On Wayland (Ubuntu 17.10) I disabled tap-and-drag gesture with
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag false
And logged out and back in.
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
If you're running an HWE release (like 18.04.2) then you'll actually want:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-18.04
You don't need to remove any packages, just add this and once it's ...
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 - Tap to click is not reliable anymore
What ended up working for me was to remove the synaptics driver:
sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
followed by a reboot. After that the touchpad worked again. I have a Dell XPS 15 9650.
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Fingerprint reader in ubuntu 18.04
As far as I know you don't need fingerprint-gui in 18.04.
You need to install these packages to get it working:
sudo apt install -y fprintd libpam-fprintd
and then update your PAM configuration.
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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop
I deal with two simple approaches with this issue. The first, which not always works (as you mentioned) just restarts the mouse module after the suspend action.
sudo rmmod psmouse ; sudo modprobe ...
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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 15.10(Gnome)
I had same problem in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and solved it with similar technique mentioned in Eliah Kagan's answer which was adapted from a comment but with some differences:
Launch "dconf Editor" app. (...
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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop
It was recommended that I post my workaround as an answer:
I found that hibernate (sudo pm-hibernate) did not experience the same problems with touchpad restarting, therefore I just set all relevant ...
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synaptics touchpadd drivers for 16.04
This is just from my experience, but sometimes my wrist will accidentally touch the pad and cause the mouse to jump. If that's not what you meant, you could try this page to see if the suggestions ...
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Unable to disable Horizontal Scrolling on Ubuntu 16.04.1
It is quite easy to do if you installed libinput.
Edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/xx-libinput.conf ( replace the xx with the right number for your system; often 90 or 40 ) and add
Option "...
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Adaptive acceleration for touchpad on Ubuntu 17.10
In 17.10, you can also set the acceleration profile directly and disable mouse acceleration by setting accel-profile to 'flat'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse accel-profile 'flat'
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Right click on Synaptic Touchpad not working on Ubuntu 14.10
Just add:
Option "ClickPad" "true"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
Something like this:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Default ...
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Stop Scrolling on fingers up
I've asked the same question on unix stackexchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278923/mousewheel-touchpad-scrolling-in-browsers and what I found out after a little bit of exploration is ...
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Libinput scrolling behaviour config
You're talking about "kinetic scrolling". If you're using GNOME and really want kinetic scrolling now, you could try applying this patch and building GNOME. Or wait until it's implemented in your ...
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Touchpad issues on Ubuntu 16.10
I ran in to the same issue after upgrading from 16.04 LTS to 16.10. Reinstalling xserver-xorg-input-all did the trick.
sudo apt install --reinstall xserver-xorg-input-all
My first attempt at ...
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 - Tap to click is not reliable anymore
Installing Touchpad Indicator worked for me!
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How do I load the synaptics driver on 12.04? (Scrolling does not work)
Try this if neither of the previous ideas of this thread worked
In a terminal enter : xinput
you should get something looking like this :
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master ...
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Chrome two finger scroll then right clicks
I had the same issue only in Chrome too.
You can solve this problem by using 50-synaptics.conf config file :
wget http://hgdev.co/wp-content/uploads/50-synaptics.conf
sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
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Unable to install or upgrade after an upgrade to 16.04 with gcc-doc error
I had the same problem here. Then after googling, I found solution (i hope) on How to fix "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state" error?
Run:
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/<...
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Fully disable "tap and drag gesture" for synaptics touchpad
I use the synclient MaxTapMove=0 to solve the problem. Although I am really not sure it is the right solution.
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Unable to set default values for SynPS/2 Synaptic
You can change the default value in your libinput config file located at
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
(mine is actually 90-libinput.conf. anyways, something like this.)
Just add
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i3 synclient has no natural scrolling
For anyone who comes across this, though synclient has no explicit NaturalScrolling option, it has VertScrollDelta and HorizScrollDelta. Simply setting these to negatives values flips the scroll ...
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Alienware 13 touchpad not working under any distro [DLL068B:00 06CB:76E9] [hid-rmi]
I found an solution:
Type in the terminal
sudo su
echo 'blacklist i2c_hid' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
depmod -a
update-initramfs -u
and reboot
Hope did work for you!!
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Chrome two finger scroll then right clicks
You can solve the two-finger-scrolling issue by following these steps:
Open a terminal (shell) window.
Run the command below in order to become root (superuser). Becoming root is important because ...
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