Questions tagged [touchpad]
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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I spilled tea on my laptop and now my touchpad isn't working [duplicate]
I was sitting in my bed and left my computer to the side, and I accidentally knocked over a cup of tea I was drinking earlier, I'm pretty sure everything on my computer works except the touchpad. The ...
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Touchpad can not be used and missing from Device Manager
Last night my laptop was working properly. When I used it this morning there is some problem with the touchpad: There is no cursor displayed. I think the touchpad is disabled so I press fn+F9 but ...
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ArchLinux KDE sometimes mouseclick on the touchpad not working
I'm running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma as desktop environment. Sometimes it happens that I suddenly can't use the double tap gesture on the touch-pad to make a mouse click also the two finger gestures ...
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Mouse buttons don't work while typing
Hey guys I need some help if you can, when I am typing I can't use the mouse buttons to click on anything. It's particularly annoying when I am in a game I can't click anything while moving around.
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Installed Windows 10 on Mac without using Boot Camp - Need Help About Right Click, Trackpad and Function Keys [closed]
I installed Windows 10 on Mac without using Boot Camp -
Actually all I need is Bootcamp menu, because you can activate right click and function keys with it. But I tried a lot of things from this ...
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How do I right-click-drag with a single button touchpad in Windows 10?
I have a laptop with Windows 10. It has a Macbook-style touchpad, where it is just one big button. In the control panel, I can set right-click to tapping with two fingers. However, if I want to ...
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Windows 10: Cursor switching to one with mini scroll bar (seemingly randomly)
My cursor recently started to randomly switch to a cursor with the arrow on a mini scrollbar (see circled). Sometimes it is a vertical bar but sometimes it can be horizontal as well.
If I go to "...
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Asus Laptop has touchpad but Windowsw 10 does not list it in the device manager
I have a Windows 10 Laptop recently purchased (ASUS VivoBook 15 X512FA) were I reinstalled windows 10 to remove the crapware. The touchpad is suddenly not working now. I tried the usual steps to fix ...
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How to use Thinkpad trackpoint to vertical scroll on a MacBook?
I just bought a Thinkpad tablet 2 bluetooth keyboard to use with a MacBook. The thing I found difficult was that I'm not able to scroll like trackpad anymore. I have to click the scroll bar on the ...
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Disabling Click Delay, Dell XPS13 Windows 10 Home Edition, Microsoft Touchpad
tl;dr - How do I disable click delay on a Windows 10 Dell xps13 9360 laptop?
This quarantine has got me trying to play video games again. I loaded up CSGO for the first time on this machine and ...
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Disable tap to click without Precision touchpad on 7+ Year old Laptop - no proper drivers for windows 10
I need to disable tap to click on a laptop that no longer has specific drivers to give tap to click option - just sensitivity.
The laptop is 7+ years old. Originally with windows 7 samsung had a ...
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How to use an Apple magic trackpad as a drawing tablet on Linux
I try to use an "old" Apple magic trackpad (AMT) as a drawing tablet on my Linux laptop:
Dell XPS
ArchLinux
Xorg
Xfce 4
I configured Xorg to use evdev driver for the AMT because synaptics does not ...
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How to make Windows drag continuously with a touchpad like Mac's do?
On Mac OS X you can double click on the touchpad and start "dragging". If you get to the end of the touchpad you can use another finger to continue the "dragging" while the original finger continues ...
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Disable finger-swipe to minimize all tabs (Windows 10)
I recently got a new Microsoft computer with Windows 10.
When I am using the touchpad to two-finger scroll, often all of my tabs will get minimized. After trying to re-create the problem, I figured ...
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Enabling touchpad tapping after installing dwm on Arch Linux
I installed Arch Linux and dwm window manager. But the tapping of touchpad doesn't work.
I know how to enable the tapping; I find the id of my touchpad, using this command:
~ xinput --list
Virtual ...
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Where can I investigate session-only spontaneous mouse failure?
On my Lenovo S340 Ideapad with Xubuntu 19.10, I'm having a strange issue with my touchpad, apparently a 'MSFT0001:02 04F3:304B Touchpad' using a Synaptics driver. For no reason that I can find, the ...
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How to Disable Touchpad gestures in windows?
Windows latest update has introduced some two finger gestures, how to disable ?
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Disable Touchpad on Laptop on Lenovo laptop
I am trying to disable the Touchpad as I use an external mouse, but I am having no luck. Here is what I have tried:
Start > Settings > Device > Touchpad
There is no option to disable when ...
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How to make pointstick buttons behave like touchpad buttons
I'm running Windows 10 on a Dell Latitude 5480 computer that has separate pointstick (above the touchpad) and touchpad (below the touchpad) buttons. Whenever I click one of the pointstick buttons ...
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Touchpad not working on CentOS 8
The title says it all. I just installed CentOS 8 on my laptop and the touchpad isn't working. Like many, I hate the touchpad but for times like when I'm on an airplane there often isn't room for a ...
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Trouble with Mouse Gesture software, can't resinstall
This is about a failed program install, that happens to be the ASUS mouse gesture program. I'll explain the complete issue;
New Windows 10 Install - freshly built laptop.
Mouse gesture software ...
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Visual cue of when ClickLock has been activated?
I am using Windows's ClickLock feature for touchpads. It lets me
create the effect of holding down the left mouse button and dragging
the pointer for long distances, either for selecting a lot of ...
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ELan touchpad not detected
After updating Kali Linux too kernel 5.4 . my touch pad is not detected .
my kernel is:
Linux sorush 5.4.0-kali2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.4.8-1kali1 (2020-01-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux
ic2_h cannot detect ...
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ELAN touchpad: Software to turn left button or any key into middle button?
I joined the throngs migrating away from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and bought an Acer TravelMat P2:
Model name: TMP2410-G2-M-55HN
Part number: NX.VGTAA.006
It has an ELAN touchpad and driver, ...
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Why does my Dell laptop touchpad stop physically clicking when I'm at altitude?
I have a Dell XPS 9560 - the touchpad will physically click when the bottom edge is depressed, except when my laptop is at high-altitude[1] the touchpad physically stops clicking and pressing down on ...
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Disable touchpad on Linux Mint
My notebook's touchpad is not working properly and every 2 seconds or so it does a imperceptible movement that is only noticeable when I'm on fullscreen on any media player and it brings up the ...
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Touchpad not detected by Windows 10 version 1607 (LTSB)
Our Acer Aspire A315-54-5580 laptop came with Windows 10 Home pre-installed. I wiped the hard drive (after backing up all partitions) and installed Windows 10 Enterprise N 2016 LTSB. This is an older ...
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Multitouch precision touchpad gestures in Firefox
Is there a way to enable multitouch swipe gestures for navigating through the browser history in Firefox when using a precision touchpad in Windows 10? I imagine it would work the same way as in Edge, ...
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#Ubuntu: touchpad dies after return from sleep, reactivates after mouse plugged in and out
My laptop runs Ubuntu 19.10.
Once I reopen my laptop, my touchpad buttons don't work anymore. However, I can still move around the curser, but I can't click anything anymore (left and right button, ...
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Mouse pointer issue (cursor "skips" or "slips" and doesn't change cursor image)
I have a bizarre issue with my pointer.
Most of the time, it works fine.
Few times per week the following happens:
Everything looks normal but when I hover over something that should trigger a cursor ...
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Windows 10 does not detect touchpad and touchscreen (not shown in device manager)
I just got a new HP laptop. After booting it up to make sure it worked and Windows was activated, I opened it up and replace the Optane m.2 with a 512 GB m.2 SSD, then I reformatted and reinstalled ...
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Office365 has a different track pad scroll direction with X-Mouse-Button-Control
In my company, I got a new notebook with Microsoft Windows 10. It comes with natural scrolling support on the touchpad: Sliding up with two fingers moves the document up. So far, so nice.
Sadly, if I ...
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Acer Aspire ES1-512 touchpad not working after clean Windows 8.1 Pro (re-)installation
On an older laptop Acer Aspire ES1-512 the touchpad is not working after clean Windows 8.1 Pro (re-)installation.
Things that could play role here:
Right from the beginning of Windows 8.1 Pro ...
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Cannot log into Bios menu
I have two problems, it seems they are linked. I don't know how to proceed and fix it.
1) I cannot log into the BIOS, after hooking up the HDMI port to a LG Smart TV monitor.
Initially I was able ...
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How can I induce electromagnetic interference on my laptop to potentially reproduce touchpad issues?
A certain laptop mfg. doesn't affix EMI shielding to the rear of their touchpads.
Many people see the issue exacerbated when they plug in the power adapter, but for me, the issue is pretty ...
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Linux Touchpad: Slowly scrolling down "chunky" in (Java?) apps that don't scroll continuously
I noticed this on my Xubuntu 18.04 Laptop, using the touchpad and the Synaptics driver:
When I scroll down slowly (using the two finger scroll gesture) in, say, LibreOffice Calc (which has rows of ...
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Windows 10 two-finger scrolling not smooth on precision touchpad
Usually, when one places two fingers upon the touchpad and moves them up or down, the page will smoothly scroll up or down depending on the direction of the fingers/how fast they move. However, if I ...
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Can I remap my Notebook's TouchPad Buttons to a Keyboard Keystroke?
Specifically, I want them to invoke my Browser's BACK-/FORWARD-Page functionality
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MacBook keyboard and trackpad on Ubuntu
I have made a bootable SSD to run Linux off and it all works, except when I connect it to my MacBook the trackpad and keyboard do not work. I have Kernel 4.15 and I see online I need to download some ...
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X-windows middle-mouse button using touchpad on Windows 10
Cygwin is the only unix environment of which I know that works on top of Windows. I am getting frequent reminders to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10. It doesn't make sense to migrate my 2011 ...
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Is it possible to remap Linked / Duplicate Keys? (D-Pad & Arrow Keys)
I have researched and tested, the various popularly recommended software, for keyboard re-mapping:
SharpKeys, KeyTweak, Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, etc...
Of those that were able to detect my ...
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Disable touchpad by registry in dell inspiron 13-5379
I have a dell inspiron 13-5379
You can see which drivers i can download here
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/servicetag/0-dWtRb0NxZ0V1UFNzNTliVm9RVzlsQT090/drivers
I don't ...
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Windows 10: How to Bind 4-Finger Left/Right Swipe Gesture to Keyboard Shortcut
I'm a Windows 10 user that makes frequent use of the Remote Desktop function for work, and would like to know if there is a way to map the touchpad's 4-finger swipe gestures to a keyboard shortcut.
I ...
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Can the scroll direction of the trackpad and the mouse/trackball be set differently in macOS?
On my MacBook Pro, I want to scroll direction on the trackpad to natural (two fingers swiping up to scroll down) but have the scroll action on my Kensington trackball be "natural to me" which is ...
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Please help me turn off pinch zoom on Windows 10 touchpad (no options from driver)
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad S145 laptop with an ELAN touchpad. The touchpad works, but there appears to be no way to configure the touchpad. Normally this is found in the 'Additional Mouse Options' menu ...
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How to disable/enable a device that has does not allow disabling? (Windows 10)
I have a newish laptop that I've been using for a couple of months. For the most part I love this computer, but there is one headache I absolutely have to solve in order to maximize productivity on ...
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Random right click on windows Diagnostic
I have a weird random right click problem on my old Vaio laptop, I'm 90% sure that it's not hardware related because it happens not so often and there is nothing on the touchepad tray icon which ...
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Macbook Air cursor from trackpad freeze every 5 seconds
Macbook air OS high Sierra (10.13.4 v).
The cursor from the trackpad freeze every 5 seconds, and when you click start moving again, but If you stop moving it, it will freeze again 5 seconds later.
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Files related to Elan Touchpad driver
Two weeks ago, I was facing BSOD error: Driver State Power Failure on my laptop.
I was told to update all of my drivers from Lenovo's website.
Under Mouse, Pen and Keyboard drivers I was supposed to ...
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thinkpad touchpad keeps turning off and on at random
I bought my Lenovo thinkpad T440s (running the latest version of linux mint) secondhand a couple of months ago, and it has been working fine except the last two days. My touchpad stops responding, ...