A touchpad or trackpad is a device, normally on laptops, which does the same thing as a mouse by tracking the movement of the user's fingers.
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left click logging off session- FC17
I am using FC-17 kernel 3.8.12-100 on an Asus k55vm laptop.
All of a sudden my left touchpad click is causing the session to log off without any notification. Initially I thought that it might be ...
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Modding new style 'buttonless' touchpads
I'm looking to buy a new laptop, and perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I really hate these new button-less touchpads that seem to be on 90% of current machines. E.g.
My biggest peeve with these things ...
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Ignore area on touchpad
I recently purchased a Lenovo y500 and installed Debian wheezy 64-bit on it with no issues. The problem I'm having is with the touchpad. In Windows (dual boot) it ignores movements on the lower part ...
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Synaptics touchpad not working properly on HP ProBook 4540S
I recently bought an HP ProBook 4540S. The touchpad works smoothly on the left side. At the right side, scrolling works, but tapping won't.
Is this a software or hardware problem?
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Ideal pointing device for touch OS [closed]
I will get a Micro-PC (MK802), what kind pointing device would be best for such a system which is essentially made for touch? (When you don't really have a touch screen)
I am primarily thinking ...
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Asus Smart Gesture auto disable touchpad when mouse connected, conflicts with touch display
I am using a Laptop with a touch display and a mouse touchpad. Asus Taichi21 (smaller one).
The touchpad is not that optimal, so using the keyboard sometimes lead to a mouseclick (then hand areas ...
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Touchpad randomly unresponsive for like 1 minute (Windows 7)
I have a Vaio Series F laptop (less than 2 years old) and I've just started to have a problem with the touchpad. Every once in a while (it seems to be around every 5-10) it becomes unresponsive to any ...
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How to define the manufacturer of laptop touchpad?
I'am trying to instal driver of touchpad of my laptop Toshiba Satellite T130. (Part No.: PST3AE-03601VRU) Toshiba webpage
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disable touchpad on lenovo
I have a refurbished thinkpad with an UltraNav "pointing device" installed as touchpad. I've tried disabling it through "device manager" but the "disable" option is disabled. Is there any way to ...
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Windows 8 trackpad gestures along with scrolling stops working after running virtualbox or vmware player
I have an AMD A8 based HP laptop, Pavilion G6 2201AX running Windows 8.
It has a Synaptics touchpad. My problem is whenever i run Virtualbox or Vmware player all the gestures on trackpad stop working, ...
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How to know what is my touchpad device to enable multitouch and advanced gestures?
Right now, it only works the right and left click, and the scroll at the right part of the touchpad. Windows 7 detects it as a mouse with scroll wheel. I tried the latest Synaptics drivers and some ...
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Can I have my trackpad use one speed, while my actual mouse have a different speed?
I want my trackpad's mouse speed to be the second notch up in the settings, like this:
I have an actual mouse whose speed I want to be all the way up in the settings, like this:
My USB dongle ...
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Keyboard layouts switching randomly in Windows 8
I use the US and United States-International (INTL) keyboard layouts, since I occasionally need to type characters not normally found in English. I rarely use the INTL layout intentionally. However, ...
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Anyone have set of synclient settings for Dell Vostro 2420 / 2520 trackpad?
The Dell Vostro 2420 / 2520 is dell's most inexpensive business laptop, so issues were exepcted.
A major problem for me has been the trackpad and linux especially when I two finger scroll or double ...
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Left-click action doesn't work when using touchpad [closed]
Asked internal IT but "works for me" and here we are...
It's Lenovo X121e running Windows7.
Button on the top left works fine.
Touchpad on the bottom left does not work for my user (it works for ...
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Accidentally (?) disabled touchpad scrolling
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z580 with Windows 8, and I was annoyed by the charms bar popping up every time I was putting my finger on the touchpad from the right side, so I applied the registry changes ...
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Why is my touchpad inop on battery power?
System info:
Acer C7 Chromebook
When I am on battery power the touchpad becomes mostly unresponsive. After a lot of testing, I have determined the following:
1 - if the only contact with the ...
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Why do 82 packages get installed with kde-config-touchpad?
I'm trying to get the touchpad to work correctly on my t61 with debian. I was advised to install kde-config-touchpad to do so. But when I go to install the package, it comes with 82 different ...
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How can I use a laptop pointing stick for scrolling up/down?
My laptop has a touchpad but it's not multi-touch so I cannot use it to scroll up/down with two finger gestures. I was wondering if I could use the "pointing stick" in the keyboard to do the scrolling ...
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How to make the pointer glide on Mac OS X?
I just moved from Dos To Mac. On my old laptop I could configure the touchpad to "glide" with the synaptic driver. That is the pointer would continue to move a bit after I lift my moving finger off ...
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Windows touchpad damaged
While I was making my bootable DVD for Fedora 18 with another laptop, after finishing, I wanted to try whether it worked or not. So I restarted my system. It worked, so I've turned the installation ...
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Are there any mulittouch gesture controls for Chrome?
I just installed Chrome for Mac, but have also enjoyed the multitouch features that are in Safari. Is there any extension and/or plugins for Google Chrome that allow me use some similar touch gesture ...
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Change only touchpad speed?
I wonder is there any way to change touchpad speed/sensitivity, independent of mouse speed? I'm using Windows 7 x64 on an Asus K53U AMD laptop.
ASUS Smart Gesture has no options related to what I ...
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Set Synaptics “three finger press” to an action?
In the settings panel for certain Synaptics clickpad/touchpads is an option for executing a "program" on three-finger-presses. I'm hoping there's an easy way to have a three-finger-press excute an ...
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Touch Pad Not Working after Power Loss during Windows Update
During a Windows Update, power to the laptop (Gateway NE56R10u) was lost. When turned on again, it restarted in some flavor of Safe Mode. After a System Restore everything seems to be working ...
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Touchpad scrolling is disabled on Gateway laptop with Windows 8
Somehow my touchpad scrolling got turned off and I can't figure out how to turn it back on.
I tried the instructions for Windows 7, but the options are different in Windows 8.
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Why does my touchpad driver randomly becomes unresponsive?
I am using a Toshiba S855-S5378 running windows 8 with Synaptics touchpad driver. When this happens, the touchpad driver did not start up when it's supposed to. I also can't open the mouse settings in ...
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how to adjust direct of point touchpad on ubuntu 12.10
My laptop has problem with point of touchpad. It always switch direct when restart machine. please guide me adjust or file configure ,..vv.vv thank you
sorry my english very bad
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Synaptics TouchPad left click does not work
I read solutions regarding the micro switch not being triggered or being faulty.
I'm not sure if this is my case because I configured the right click to be the primary click and it did not work.
I ...
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Which software can control frequently used laptop functions like Fn combo keys?
My laptop fn key died yesterday. I can't send it to the repair service now because I need it for my work.
My question is: Is there any softwares can control some functions like: turn on/off wifi and ...
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BSOD after Windows 8 Update on Macbook Air
Whenever I try to update Windows 8 running dual-boot on my 2012 Macbook Air 13", I get a perpetual blue screen of death after restarting that can only be solved with a System Restore. According to ...
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Pointer 'snap to' Start button when swiping from right on touchpad
I want my mouse pointer to 'snap' to the Start button when I swipe from right on the touchpad to unveil the Charms Bar. I've seen this in some ASUS Windows 8 laptops.
Because dragging my mouse ...
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Using trackpad on Lenovo Thinkpad X220 results in 'tab' presses
When I use the trackpad on my Thinkpad X220 (42984BU), it seems to result in Tab keypresses (i.e. it actually has the same effect as if I hit Tab repeatedly). The red TrackPoint (eraserhead) works ...
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Changing Windows 8 edge swipe behavior
I’d like to use the edge swiping feature of windows 8 to open the start menu instead of the charm bar.
I found that, and wonder if there’s a way to change that behavior using regedit :
Modify or ...
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ELAN TouchPad makes current window to lose focus when using two finger scroll
I have an ASUS X52J laptop, running Windows 7 x64.
This problem appeared out of nowhere, and I don't even know where to start looking for a solution (Google wasn't of much help).
The pad itself ...
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my cursor moves but I can't click (i can only click with the two rectangle buttons under the touchpad)
I have a Dell Inspiron 14R. yesterday it was working perfectly fine, then I went on Skype to chat with a friend and I started to have a difficulty to click icons. for example, when I want to close ...
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Mac Magic Mouse & Touchpad Drag But Won't Drop
I have a MacBookPro, with a Magic Mouse attached. Suddenly, I'm not able to drag and drop using either device.
I can select an item and drag it, but not drop it anywhere. I eventually have to hit ...
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Disable “gesture” to turn off touchpad
I have a problem with my laptop and the touchpad. There's "something" that handles a 3-finger tap in the touchpad and causes the touchpad to be enabled/disabled (buttons keep working). This was ...
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xorg: disable touch sensitivity on clickpad button area on Elantech clickpad
Clickpads have mouse buttons integrated. I always lay one finger on the (left) button (to be ready to press ;). The problem with this is, that I prevent myself moving the cursor with my finger if I ...
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How can I turn these hidden touchpad settings on through regedit?
It should be possible to set many more settings with this elantech touchpad (circular scroll etc), since it is in the registry set to 0 under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Elantech\SmartPad
How do ...
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Using my Touchpad and Keyboard at the Same Time on my Dell Inspirion 5520
I recently bought a Dell Inspirion 5520 laptop running Windows 8. Overall I like the device, but there's one thing that keeps bugging me; whenever I type something and then immediately try to use the ...
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Windows 8 tile scroll counter-intuitive
I can do a 2-finger swipe on my trackpad to scroll the tiles left and right in Windows 8 Modern UI, but every time I do it, it scrolls in the opposite direction I'd expect. Is there a way to reverse ...
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Three finger flick not working as expected
I've got a Lenovo y580 with both windows 7 and windows 8 installed. When I first installed Windows 8, the three finger flick to go back or forward a page in an internet or file browser worked fine. ...
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Getting a matrix of capacitance data from a touchpad
I would like to access the raw data from my touchpad before the data is processed into a single X,Y coordinate. Instead, I would like a grid of values as portrayed here:
(image from ...
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Water on touchpad, having issue the next day
The touchpad pretty much has little or no response to movement in any direction. There was some condensation that got on it from taking it out of a chilled (lots of air-conditioning) room to outside ...
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Touchpad mouse goes crazy after pressing right mouse button
The mousepointer on my Lenovo Y500 goes crazy when using the touchpad and pressing the right mouse button that is on the touchpad 2+ times.
I have almost no control on the pointer anymore, and it ...
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Touchpad dysfunctional for one user, others ok
I'm using a compaq presario notebook running windows 7. Suddenly the synaptics touchpad does not work -- for one user only. I'm logged in now as administrator, and everything is fine.
I checked the ...
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Is it possible to make touchpad on Lenovo G780 disabled by default?
Fn+F6 works fine to disable touchpad on Lenovo G780. But when it wakes up from sleep, the touchpad is enabled again. Is there a way to make this disabling persist (without disabling the driver ...
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Why do my scroll bar & cursor move on their own?
I have a less than 3-year-old Dell Studio laptop running Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9. I use the touch pad, not a mouse. Lately the scroll bar moves on its own and the cursor does, too. The cursor ...
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How do I fix my ELAN Touchpad Driver (Windows 8 Pro)?
Whenever I use a Windows 8 app (e.g. Mail) and I just move my mouse up using the touchpad, it brings up the configuration bar (the one that comes out when you right-click).
