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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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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 ...
21
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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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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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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.
11
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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.
...
9
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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
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 ...
7
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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 "...
7
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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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Thinkpad touchpad mouse cursor laggy/choppy | Ubuntu 18.04
see my answer here:
I can confirm a similar issue with my touchpad on HP ProBook 450 G6 with Ubuntu 18.04, it was very laggy after suspend.
What worked for me:
create /lib/systemd/system-sleep/...
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Disable middle click with Wayland
Solution
Use the command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation true
When we enable middle click emulation, if there is a real middle button on your touchpad he'...
6
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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 ...
6
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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 ...
6
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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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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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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 ...
5
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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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Synaptics (synclient) no longer loads
Looks like Gnome 3.20 replaces synaptics with libinput (see this archlinux link for more info).
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Disable touchpad while typing do not work
Solution was to add in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist i2c_designware-platform
And reboot the system. After that syndaemon works fine.
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Fully disable "tap and drag gesture" for synaptics touchpad
I was able to resolve this issue by installing and using libinput instead of synaptics for my input driver.
This post describes the installation process very simply for 15.04+ (I am on 16.04).
...
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How to configure my touchpad to switch between workspaces with a swipe
Dont know about unity but you can do in Gnome, move your cursor over the dash/launcher , swipe with 2 finger boom workspaces switch instantly.
Cheers
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Touchpad tap stopped working
It looks like you installed libinput. You have two options:
Enable tapping with libinput. It can be done by adding
Option "Tapping" "true"
to the touchpad section of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-...
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