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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ASUS Zenbook UX433/UX333 --- Configure Touchpad-embedded numpad on Linux
I have an ASUS Zenbook UX433,on which ASUS decided to innovate by embedding a Numpad inside the touchpad (see picture 1).
Toggling between classic touchpad mode and numpad (also turns the touchpad ...
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Apple MagicTrackpad2 on Ubuntu
I bought an Apple Magic Trackpad2 and want to use it on Ubuntu 16.04. Actually moving the pointer works, but e.g. two finger scrolling or tap to click doesn't. So I came up with the following ...
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syndaemon won't disable touchpad while typing
I am trying to use syndaemon to disable my touchpad while I type. I know that the GUI for this doesn't work for many people but all the posts I've seen online suggest that using syndaemon from the ...
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Very High CPU Usage By IRQ #16
I recently noticed that one of my CPUs was idling at around 85-90% and according to top the usage was coming from interrupts, so just like in this question I used a combination of dmesg and ...
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Can I globally disable kinetic scrolling on touchpad?
I want to scroll exactly the distance I scroll, not twice as far. I'm sure kinetic scrolling is amazing for touch devices, but touchpads are no more touch devices than keyboards, where you touch the ...
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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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Wayland Touchpad Jumping - Motion Treshold?
I just switched from Ubuntu 17.10 to Debian Buster Sid, using GNOME 3.26.2.
I'm using a Thinkpad T430. See below for more information on my touchpad.
$ grep -B 5 mouse /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=...
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Synaptics touchpad, i2c-hid and hid-rmi
I have a similar question as asked here: how should I interpret this line from syslog:
psmouse serio1: synaptics: Your touchpad (PNP: SYN1ef3 SYN1e00 SYN0002 PNP0f13) says it can support a different ...
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How to get position of fingers on touchpad
I want to develop a program which would be able to make use of absolute position of fingers on a touchpad to define custom in-app gestures. I've read that using raw data from evdev is a really bad ...
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Touchpad buttons do not release after press (Debian Gnome and others)
I use a Sony Vaio Tap 11 (Intel based tablet) with Debian Gnome, but experience the same issue under Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora etc. .
This tablet has a radio keyboard with touchpad and two buttons ...
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macbook-like multitouch trackpad on Linux Mint Cinnamon with touchegg
I'm trying to get macbook-like multitouch trackpad gestures working on my linux machine. Currently working on Linux Mint 18, trying to get touchegg working, though I'm open to another multitouch ...
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What is the difference in using xinput and synclient for deactivating a touchpad in X
I have troubles using xinput --disable or --set-prop "Device Enabled" or set-prop "Synaptics Off".
It seems that --disable / --enable and "Device Enabled" are meant to deactivate the whole device, ...
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How do I exit coasting when a key is pressed?
I have enabled coasting on my touchpad:
$ synclient -l | grep -i coast
CornerCoasting = 0
CoastingSpeed = 20
CoastingFriction = 50
It works fine. However, if I ...
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How to configure external USB touchpad for a laptop
I have a laptop that, obviously, comes with a touchpad and a keyboard. However, I have an USB keyboard with integrated touchpad that better suits my needs. I use Ubuntu 13.10 and I cannot find how to ...
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Kernel does not detect Hardware / Software or Hardware fault
My Linux kernel (I tried several here from stock 2.6, 3.2 and 3.5 as well as a custom 3.7.3 one) does not detect my synaptics touchpad - or I am too dumb to find it. I looked into: dmesg, lsusb -v, ...
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Lenovo x1 gen9 @ ubuntu22 - touchpad too sensitive to touch
I have a Lenovo X1 gen9 with Ubuntu 22 on it. The touchpad is too sensitive, often drags things around when i am moving the cursor, registering false clicks and double clicks. I found that the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Double tap with two fingers not eating in Minecraft
In my laptop's touchpad double tap with two fingers only work single time in Minecraft as well as on desktop/Home i.e single right-click , but in Minecraft it do not hold with two finger double tap or ...
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What are 'default' props in xinput/libinput for?
I wanted to adjust vertical (two-finger) scrolling speed via xinput because my DE's settings utility does not expose that setting. So, I ran xinput --list-props to fetch a list of available settings ...
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Why does my touchpad stop working when I plug in my (normal, non-USB) headphones?
It's the darnedest thing. And only started happening within the last two days. Whenever I plug in my 3.5mm AKG headphones into the appropriate spot on my Acer Chromebook 15 CB3-532 running Ubuntu 18, ...
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Can I assign two mice to two windows or have two pointers?
I figured out how to put two pointers at the same time and control them with two mice (using xinput), but can I have them both assigned to a window? Since I can only have one window in focus I can't ...
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Fedora 26--Trackpad Stops Working
I recently updated my laptop from Fedora 25 to 26. After the update, sometimes, usually after I close the lid, the trackpad stops working entirely. I can't move the pointer, click, or scroll.
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multi-touch gestures on Thinkpad T61
I'm currently running elementaryOS Freya on my Thinkpad T61 and want to use multi-touch gestures. Out of the box I can use 2-finger swipes for scrolling (although it works rather badly with this OS).
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Synaptics touchpad inactive before suspend, active after resume
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04. I usually disable the touchpad. (because my palms make the cursor jump all over the screen!)
When I suspend (by closing my laptop's lid) and then resume (by opening the lid),...
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Making a touchpad without buttons like a normal touchpad with buttons
Assume a synaptics compatible mousepad that has no physical buttons, but where the whole surface is physically clickable (not a tap, but physically clickable). A particular touchpad with these ...
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Unable to make touchpad work
I'm trying to find here a solution for my long-time touchpad problem.
I tried one year ago at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/touchpad-not-beign-recognized-...
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Xorg.conf options not staying
I am trying to enable tap to click by default on my trackpad. The device name is "bcm5974". xinput --set-prop "bcm5974" "libinput Tapping Enabled" "1" works a ...
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Finding the right drivers in the linux kernel
I have an ELAN touch-pad with vendor id 04F3:3128 and I'm trying to find the right Linux kernel drivers to support it. I will start by noting that the touch-pad works with live CDs, like for example ...
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Touchpad from HP laptop not working on OpenBSD
I have installed OpenBSD 6.8 on a HP laptop. I have also installed xfce4.
My problem is that the touchpad of the laptop does not work.
Running the following command: dmesg | grep Touchpad the system ...
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Enabling coasting on a touchpad not recognised as such
I'm setting up a Linux (Devuan Beowulf) install for my Chuwi Hi10 Air tablet/hybrid PC. It's got a touchpad in the corresponding keyboard that's not a Synaptics but something else. Even MSWin doesn't ...
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bunsenlabs helium synaptics touchpad exists in system but doesn't work
I just install bunsenlabs helium 32bit on my old machine.
TOSHIBA NB520 w/ INTEL ATOM INSIDE and 2GB RAM
Unfortunately the touchpad does not work propertly. Indeed it doesn't work at all.
I have ...
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IdeaPad 5 Touchpad unresponsive
I have been trying to diagnose my laptops trackpad which is not working. It is detected in xinput:
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
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X-window requirement for 3 mouse buttons on a modern Windows laptop
I'm a big fan of using bash, gvim, xpdf, xterm, x-windows, and many of the unix-like utilities that Cygwin has.
I have a question that I suspect goes beyond Cygwin and applies to anyone using a Unix-...
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Asus TUF Ubuntu 18.04.1 elantech mouse freezes frequently
I purchased a ASUS TUF FX504GE laptop and dual booted it with Ubuntu 18.04.1 .After which my elantech touchpad stopped working.I updated my kernel to 4.20.6, after which it does work,but freezes ...
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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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What layer of the OS/drivers/X/Wayland might cause touchpad problems in both synaptic and libinput?
I am wondering, what layer of the stack might be causing issues in my touchpad if both the synaptic driver and the libinput driver show the same issue?
I would be using my trackpad and intermittently ...
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Working acpi kernel options for Asus FX503VD?
On kernel version 4.15.0-sabayon, the only way to load X is with the kernel options:
acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2009'
(and acpi=off but that's radical and leaves me with no sensors). Otherwise I ...
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Linux Mint 18.3 touchpad middle click
I just installed Mint 18.3 and I'm trying to set my touchpad to do a middle click for a 2-finger tap and a right click for a 3-finger tap. Running
synclient TapButton2=2
synclient TapButton3=3
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Arch on MacBook Air Touchpad Tap to Click/Drag will not turn off
I am running Arch on a 2011 MacBook Air, and have been experiencing track pad issues off and on for quite some time. It seems that sometimes after system upgrades, the trackpad will become overly ...
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Match touchpad properly in xorg.conf on Dell XPS 15
I'm trying to set nice options like tap and natural scroll to my Dell's touchpad. Booting X will detect 2 touchpads, one SynPS/2 Synaptics and one DLL touchpad. The SynPS/2 won't get any xevents, they ...
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Slow down touchpad vertical scroll (too sensitive)
The vertical scroll of my touchpad is very sensitive.
I just put one finger in the right side of the touchpad and the page start scrolling up and down.
If I use Google Maps, it gets me crazy.
This is ...
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Touchpad scrolling stopped working after Debian 9 upgrade
I have upgraded my Debian 8 to Debian 9 and found out that side touchpad scrolling stopped working on my Lenono G560. Has anyone experienced something similar?
I found that
The synaptic Xorg ...
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Can I rotate horizontal and vertical two-finger touchpad scrolling?
I have a simple script set up to rotate my screen left or right (using xrandr), and it also rotates the touchpad on my laptop. That way, physically rotating the laptop lets the touchpad work ...
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ELAN1000 and FreeBSD11-RELEASE
I want to use FreeBSD as Desktop on my ASUS laptop, but I can't use its touchpad... I try multiple things with synaptics driver, use xf86-input-synaptics from ports (when I use the pkg one, the wifi ...
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Touchpad unresponsive on resume from sleep on Debian 8
I installed Debian a few weeks ago on my laptop.
When I close the lid and re open it, my touchpad does not respond. If I connect a usb mouse it works great but the touchpad does not. I tried to ...
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Debian doesn't recognize touchpad
I have installed Debian testing on a laptop Packard Bell EasyNote ENTF71BM. I using LXDE.
I can't configure the touchpad because Debian doesn't recognize it. I installed xserver-xorg-input-libinput, ...
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What keycodes correspond to requests for touchpad-enable and touchpad-disable?
I'm trying to write a kernel driver to support a hardware switch on my laptop. The switch is supposed to control whether or not the touchpad is disabled or enabled, and it is built into the laptop's ...
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How to determine optimal settings for a Synaptic touchpad?
I'm using Q4OS on a netbook and so far the experience has been rather pleasant, except that the touchpad is not working anywhere near close to optimal. Experiences with Ubuntu/Lubuntu, Manjaro ...
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Touchpad too sensitive on LXDE
I've recently installed LXLE (with LXDE desktop environment), and I keep having problems where my mouse clicks are being triggered while typing on the keyboard.
Basically "Mouse Click" is super ...
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Can I configure a touchpad to act as modifier keys in some circumstances?
I have Debian and use Emacs a lot. I have an idea which could help me in using modifier keys.
Currently I just switch the touchpad off when using Emacs, with this command:
synclient TouchpadOff=1
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I want touchpad-like behaviour on an Apple Magic Mouse on Linux
I run Linux (Ubuntu 14.4) on a mid 2010 iMac 27". The hardware support is mostly great but I would like to use my Apple bluetooth mouse ("magic mouse") in a touchpad-fashioned way. Right after ...
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