Questions tagged [touchpad]
A touchpad is a pointing device, often found integrated in laptops as a replacement for a mouse. Use this tag for questions related to software support for touchpads; e.g., drivers and window systems.
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Activate tap to click on touchpad?
I am using Debian 8.6 LXDE on a Powerbook G4 15" 1.67GHz and would like to enable tap to click on the touchpad. It is already double scrolling but tap to click would help to save the ageing mouse ...
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Disable scroll inside Xfce terminal / Avoid scrolling through command history
Is there a way to disable scrolling through command history for the Xfce terminal? I don't wish to rely on palm rejection, I'd just like it disabled when I'm using the terminal. Specifically I'm ...
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Is it possible to tweak input from touchpad?
I use a MS keyboard on my Debian machine. The problem is that MS does not ship configuration software for us and touchpad's default scrolling directions are reversed (it uses natural scrolling).
I ...
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Which driver is handling my touchpad?
I would like to know how to determine which driver (out of those below) is handling my touchpad:
appletouch.ko.gz,
cyapa.ko.gz,
sermouse.ko.gz,
synaptics_usb.ko.gz,
bcm5974.ko.gz,
psmouse.ko.gz,
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How to disable CTRL acting on touchpad's momentum in Cinnamon?
My touchpad has momentum enabled (or inertia, I do not know what the correct term is) - that is, even after my fingers leave the touchpad, it continues scrolling and gradually slows down (I believe it ...
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Disable loading of Touchpad
I am currently trying to fix an Advent 4211 Netbook (a rebranded MSI Wind) - and whenever I use the touchpad the mouse (even an external USB mouse) stops working - when I run xev it does not register ...
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mtrack: how to get vertical button zones?
In trying to solve this problem about resting my thumb on a clickpad, I've come across an alternative driver for touchpads/clickpads called mtrack, which tracks individual fingers and has an option to ...
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synclient does not find synaptics properties despite Synaptics Touchpad in xinput list
I upgraded my Fedora notebook to Fedora 22 yesterday. With that, synclient stopped working:
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
Nevertheless, xinput list shows:
⎡ ...
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Linux mouse freezes after suspend
Today I finally decided to switch from Windows to Ubuntu.
I fully install Ubuntu, but everytime my notebook goes in sleepmode and wakes up my mouse will not work anymore. When I do a reboot it works ...
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Middle click with two-finger tap on touchpad
In Linux Mint the default action when tapping the touchpad with two fingers is a right click. How can I change this to middle click?
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Can I prevent "Disable touchpad while typing" from affecting mouse movements?
When I click my name in the upper right, then click "System Settings", then "Mouse and Touchpad", and then "Disable touchpad while typing" it affects my mouse movements. I have to wait two seconds ...
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Disable laptop touchpad on Wayland
I need to disable the touchpad of my laptop. I am using Gnome on Wayland.
libinput should provide this functionality, but apparently it doesn't.
xinput doesn't work because I'm on Wayland.
I think ...
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Touch pad 'touch-click' not working but 'double-touch-scroll' working?
I installed Kali Linux 2.0 yesterday on my Zenbook UX303LB and touch-click on my track pad doesn't work. I had the same problem in Ubuntu so it's not a new issue and I just used a mouse as a ...
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Touchpad not working on Debian 9
I just installed Debian 9 on a Lenovo S130-14IGM but the touchpad doesn't work at all.
With Ubuntu there is no problem with it.
Here are the results from the two operating systems:
Ubuntu
# egrep -...
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How do I disable the touchpad while I'm typing?
I'm looking to disable the touchpad in Crunchbang 11 (Waldorf) while I am typing. The processes I've found online do not work for me.
All guides I have found (this thread, for instance) indicate to ...
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Mouse sluggish/choppy
So I have a Macbook 6,1 running Linux Mint 17 x64 Qiana (based on Ubuntu 14.04) using MATE with Compiz and I am having random mouse slow downs (only when using the trackpad).
It happens randomly and ...
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How to check if If i2c-hid and hid-rmi are not used for touchpad?
I'm seeing the following warning in dmesg:
[ 2.631179] psmouse serio2: synaptics: Your touchpad (PNP: SYN1218 PNP0f13) says it can support a different bus. If i2c-hid and hid-rmi are not used, you ...
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Can one disable tap-to-click in X server configuration without "InputClass" sections?
I want to configure my system so that tap-to-click is disabled on the touchpad. (It's running a rather old version of ALTLinux distro with xorg-server-1.4.2-alt10.M41.1.)
I'm interested in a solution ...
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Linux Mint 12 two finger scrolling
i can't get two finger scrolling to work for anything on Linux mint 12 64bit.... hp dv7 laptop. the hardware definitely supports it as it works just fine on my windows partition.
following the ...
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touchpad not working after hibernate
I'm using an up to date Arch/Antergos Linux.
My touchpad stops working after resuming from hibernate. I seem to be affected by this bug and I need to type sudo rmmod i2c_hid; modprobe i2c_hid after ...
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Can one disable tap-to-click in X server configuration, without synclient?
I want to configure my system so that tap-to-click is disabled on the touchpad. (It's running a rather old version of ALTLinux distro with xorg-server-1.4.2-alt10.M41.1.)
The most popular advice I ...
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Figure out the emitted keycode for Fn+F6
On my Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro on Windows, there is a function available Fn+F6 that should turn the touchpad on and off (I would like to map the correct key to the script here on askubuntu).
But on ...
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Command to toggle on/off touchpad in Xfce
I have found similar questions:
How can I set a keyboard shortcut to toggle on/off e.g. the trackpad?
and
How to set a toggle on linux (True or False) bash command?
But these are gnome-based, their ...
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Thinkpad x240 requires three fingers to scroll, only after suspend
Every time I suspend, when I start up again I can't scroll with two fingers but I have to use three. Does anyone know how to fix this? It works after restart.
My system is a Thinkpad x240 running ...
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ASUS Zenbook UX430UAR touchpad sleeps (seemingly not a USB autosuspend issue)
The System
This is a brand-new ASUS Zenbook UX430UAR dual booting the pre-installed Windows 10 and a minimal Debian, uname -a:
Linux myhostname 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u2 (2018-08-...
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Touchpad stopped working after hibernate on Thinkpad X1 Carbon
I've got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9.
When I hibernate on Ubuntu 21.10 or Pop!_OS 21.10 or Manjaro, the touchpad either stops working after resume or the cursor moves very choppy. Both with Wayland ...
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Cursor moving erratically on its own
My System:
OS: Linux Mint 18 Sarah KDE Plasma 5
laptop: Acer Aspire V112p
this is the output of the command xinput
xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master ...
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Touchpad not recognized on linux (ASUS R751LB)
I have just bought a brand new laptop. Unfortunately, touchpad doesn't work on any linux distribution (tried mint Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 14, Mint 16, also Mint 16 with recent 3.13.5 kernel).
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Two finger scrolling not working on Lenovo ThinkPad
The system
Fedora 26 Workstation 64-bit
GNOME 3.24.2
Lenovo ThinkPad T400
The issue
Two finger scrolling is not working on the touchpad.
I tried enabling two finger scrolling through Settings GUI ...
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Problem with touch pad in linux
I have a Lenovo g500 laptop and I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 in it. The problem is that the touchpad in not being dectected. I ran Ubuntu in live mode before installation and the touchpad worked ...
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Elantech Mouse Touchpad not working well
I have a dual-boot Ubuntu/Debian (GNOME) machine:
My mouse touchpad does not work correctly (right-click not recognized, cannot do 2 finger drag and drop/highlight) on Debian, but it does work ...
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The touchpad can support a better bus than the too old PS/2 protocol
I am not sure about what I should do to implement the following dmesg "suggestion"
[ 4.005445] psmouse serio1: synaptics: The touchpad can support a better
bus than the too old PS/2 protocol. ...
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Why lost communication to Touchpad on Wayland Debian Stretch after FN-8/9 keys?
I had second display connected to my laptop before, Google Chrome wants to stay there often.
I tried to restore the second display without having the second monitor connected to the laptop (because I ...
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Disable multitouch on some parts of a touchpad
The 4th gen Thinkpad Carbon X1 has no mouse buttons below the touchpad, but it is click-sensitive (a so-called clickpad). Clicking it on a small band at the bottom provides either a left- or a right-...
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Linux Mint OS always freezes when laptop is not charging
I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 OS on my HP Compaq nc6400 laptop. The OS always freezes after a while if I'm using my laptop without charging it but never does so if I'm charging my laptop while using it.
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Debian/Ubuntu: Change touchpad sensitivity
I want to change my touchpad sensitivity on Debian (or its derivative like Ubuntu, etc.). How can do it?
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Elantouchpad not working on Hp laptop with any distro
So i have an HP Pavillion 15 Gaming laptop on which I recently tried to install ubuntu. But the main problem that i faced was that the touchpad wouldn't work at all.
I switched over to pop os and ...
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How to find logs about Touchpad malfunction in Debian on Wayland?
I am trying to troubleshoot why my touchpad does not work anymore with Debian on Wayland (after pressing FN9 and FN8), continuing from the thread Why lost communication to Touchpad on Wayland Debian ...
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Mouse cursor jumping around the screen and clicking on HP Pavilion x360
I just got a old HP Pavilion x360 that I really want to put linux on, but I'm having problems with the cursor jumping sporadically and clicking things without me touching the touchpad. I tried to ...
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