Questions tagged [synaptics-touchpad]
For questions about the Synaptics brand touchpad or its drivers. It may be a device that is stand-alone or incorporated into other hardware, like a laptop or keyboard. The Synaptics driver may also serve as the OS generic "mouse" driver. Use the generic [touchpad] tag if the question isn't specific to a Synaptics product or component.
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Three finger swipe to change between windows
I'm using Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad. I want to be able to switch between open windows (like Alt+Tab) by swiping three fingers left and right. I've been searching the deepest depths of the internet ...
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Windows 10 and precision touchpad in remote desktop session
On my personal notebook I have set "Three fingers gestures/taps" action to "Middle mouse button". Works as expected.
When I use remote desktop session to my workmachine, the gesture propagates and ...
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Alternative synaptics touchpad driver for windows 7
I have hp pavillion dv6 laptop(Windows 7) with a synaptics touchpad . The gestures like two finger scroll doesn't work automatically after I disabled a startup service or something. (I dont remember ...
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Disable touchpad over mouse button areas
Is there a reg hack (or anything, except post-it notes) to disable the touchpad where the mouse buttons are? The pointer is moving around whenever I try to click on a mouse button. (Shouldn't too be ...
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How to navigate web with 3-finger flick in Windows 10
I have a Synaptics trackpad that supported 3-finger flick for going backward or forward on the web. But now in Windows 10, 3-finger flicks do some sort navigation between applications or folders or ...
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Windows/Synaptics trackpad snapping backwards after clicking quickly
tl;dr: Whenever I move the mouse a small distance and click, Windows/Synaptics will pretend I didn't move the mouse at all, reset the cursor position, but still process the click at the wrong position....
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Editing the Synaptics touchpad driver registry settings
Running the latest version of the Synaptics touchpad driver (17.0.19)
I'm also running mDesktop, which gives virtual desktop functionality. At the moment I have it set up so that "Ctrl + Left arrow" ...
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How to get the Synaptics PS/2 driver to work properly over a USB connection
I have a physical disability that makes it impossible to use a computer normally, and the only thing that works for me is the Synaptics Touchstyk mouse, which is similar to trackpoint. It only comes ...
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Synaptics Trackpad Hysteresis/Backlash/Noise Rejection
I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 with a Synaptics trackpad, running Windows 10. The issue that I am facing is with a feature that appears to come with the Synaptics drivers (since it goes away when I ...
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How do I enable side-to-side touchpad scrolling navigation in Chromium on Ubuntu 18.04?
I'm using Chromium version 70.0.3538.110 and Ubuntu 18.04. By default, there doesn't seem to be back/forward page navigation enabled to work with touchpad horizontal scrolling, which I would like to ...
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Windows 10 Synaptics Trackpad 3 finger tap opens cortana even after regedit fix
I have a synaptics trackpad (fully updated drivers) and I want the three finger tap to act as middle click but at the momment it opens cortana search start menu. I tried a fix where I changed the ...
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How to set Synaptics locked-dragging Timeout under Windows?
I have Lenovo Ideapad Y510p with Synaptics Clickpad and running Windows 10. I like to have Locked-Dragging feature but Synaptics settings application only allow to either turn it On or Off. However, I ...
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Synaptics Driver will not install windows 8.1
I cannot install the Synaptics touchpad driver on my laptop.
It is a Clevo we550eu, windows 8.1 pro. I am trying to install the latest driver version for clevo, v17.0.9.1 for windows 8.1. I have ...
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Windows 7 laptop - Jittery mouse
Toshiba Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit laptop.
The Synaptic touchpad that comes with the laptop has always been erratic, mouse jumps around all the time. So I disabled it (even removed the device ...
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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 howstuffworks.com/...
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Change 2 finger tap to middle mouse button (Synaptics Precision touchpad) via regedit
I recently bought a new Laptop (HP Envy x360, Intel i5 10th gen.) with a synaptics precision touchpad.
I just wanted to change 2 finger tap to middle mouse button. In in the win10 settings i can only ...
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Acer synaptics touchpad stops working randomly
I have an Acer Aspire VN7-791G. I am using the latest Windows 10 version (1909 18363.720), and keeping it up to date. But my touchpad stops working randomly and this freezes my computer for 1-2 sec.
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Synaptics 3 finger swipe doesn't work for navigating in Browsers anymore
I used the 3 finger swipe gesture to navigate forth and back when browsing. Since several days this gesture is now assigned as Application change. I looked in the synaptics settings (see screenshot) ...
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Synaptics: Enable 2-finger flick instead of 3-finger flick?
Is there a way to use the old 2-finger flick (swipe) instead of the new 3-finger flick with the newest Windows 8.1 driver? (17.0.19)
3-finger flick feels really unintuitive to me, because I only have ...
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Enable middle click with 3 finger click on synaptics touchpad
I have a dell xps 15 9530 with a synaptics touchpad running windows 10
I used to have another dell where I could 3 finger click and trigger a middle click. I've tried a few registry tweaks, but I can'...
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Disable Touchpad while typing without having synaptics
I want to disable the touchpad while I am typing but my computer does not have the software to disable it. How can I go about this?
I have a 64-bit Toshiba Kira UltraBook running Windows 8.1 Pro ...
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Windows 10 bottom right corner primary click doesn't work after unchecking "Enable Secondary Corner Click"
I'm on a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro using the Windows 10 19.0.9.5 touchpad drivers, which apparently are identical to the latest Windows 10 touchpad drivers available on the Lenovo website. Since this touchpad,...
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Synaptics Lenovo Driver doesn't retain settings on restart of Windows 10
Would appreciate any solutions for this problem. The reverse scrolling direction setting is not retained on Windows 10 for my Lenovo laptop on restart.
the hardware device is Synaptics ClickPad V8.1 ...
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Synaptics Clickpad not recognized
After a complete disk wipe on my Acer V5-573G I installed Windows 8.1 and the synaptics drivers for the touchpad, version 17.0.6.17 which I downloaded from the Acer Website.
The driver install did ...
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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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How to get back two finger scrolling on HP notebook?
I am using the HP Pavilion 14-B030TU Notebook with Windows 8. I have had it for 5 days now and the two finger scrolling has been working for the first 4 days. Recently, I had to do a Windows Update as ...
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How do I enable 4 finger swipe on Synaptics touchpad 7.2 on Windows 8?
I have driver version 16.3.1.2. It's not available in the control panel applet. I have tried the registry hack to change visibility but that did not work. How do I enable the 4 finger swipe?
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Dell Windows 7 Synaptic Touchpad behaving erratically
UPDATE:: solution: For anyone who may land on this in the future: I ended up having the entire trackpad/armrest replaced, as nothing else seemed to fix the issue.
Short version: My touchpad on a Dell ...
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What are the touchpad requirements to enable at the swipe the switch apps gestures on windows 8
Is there a specific make, driver, or version of touchpad that's necessary? I have a 2 year old hp dm3 with a 2 finger multitouch alps touchpad and app switching by swiping from left to right does not ...
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Cannot change Touchpad settings in openSUSE on HP Pavilion dm4-2015dx
I'm running openSUSE 11.4 on a HP pavilion dm4, with the kernel updated to 3.0.1.
I've had many hardware/drivers issues, but I managed to solve them all except for the Touchpad drivers.
The Touchpad ...
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Synaptics touchpad on Dell Inspiron stops responding sometimes
Sometimes for no reason that I can observe my Synaptics touchpad will stop responding to scroll the scroll function (I swipe my finger down the right side). I then have to reboot to get it back. Does ...
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Unable to Disable Touchpad on HP
I can't disable touch pad on my HP 250 G6 Notebook PC.
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362
System Model HP 250 G6 Notebook PC
BIOS Version/Date Insyde F.52, 3/4/2019
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How to verify that the touchpad is physically connected
I need help troubleshooting the Synaptics touchpad on my HP Probook 4540s running Windows 10. First and foremost, how can I verify, by software or hardware (in that
order of preference), that the ...
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How can i use the touchpad while typing? (Lenovo)
i have a pretty old lenovo ideapad running Windows 10 22H2 and this thing's annoying me, the fact that the synaptics driver is old and there's no PalmKms registry key to enable the touchpad while ...
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How do I stop my trackpad leaving cursors all over my screen?
On my Windows laptop, when I double-finger scroll using the trackpad, a little icon pops up next to the mouse cursor, and when I stop scrolling, the icon usually disappears.
Occasionally, the icon ...
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Can the Synaptics Touchpad Noise-Cancellation be applied only when using multiple fingers but not when only one finger is used?
I'm using an Apple Magic Trackpad (first gen) with the Synaptics Trackpad-Driver (1.9.1) on Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.11.0-40-generic) running KDE 5.18.5 (using xinput-gui to configure the trackpad).
The ...
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Dell Inspiron 5558, Window 8.1 pro
My laptop is Dell Inspiron 5558 series and I am currently using window 8.1 pro version. I'd like to ask "how I enable or disable the touch-pad" as it is disturbing by moving the cursor when ...
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Lenovo Yoga 510 14ISK (type 80S7) touchpad doesn't recognize clics
I migrated to Linux and came back to Win10. Always worked the touchpad until the last Win10 installation, but now it doesn't recognize the double click and the physical ones. However, the triple-click ...
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Adding a combo wireless keyboard/touchpad using xinput
I've been having a rough day, working on this, and coming up short. It's taken a lot of reboots, which wear me down in particular.
Here is the xinput with the wireless usb device plugged in.
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Touchpad randomly clicks when lid closed after updating Synaptics touchpad
After updating my Synaptics touchpad driver to the latest version from the Synaptics website (Older versions had a bug and I couldn't enable moving the mouse while typing), my touchpad is randomly ...
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Mouse buttons won't work while key is pressed
I have an older Lenovo W530 laptop with latest recommended Synaptics driver (19.0.17.115), Windows 10 Pro.
I occasionally play Minecraft on my laptop using the touchpad and mouse buttons. I learned ...
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Windows Touchpad: TIP TAP right click -> Two finger tap when one finger is down
I have Synaptics Trackpad on which I can two-finger-tap to emulate a right-click. However it is not so convenient when one of my fingers is already touching the trackpad that I need to lift that ...
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Trying to make synaptics work on Fedora 25
I'm trying to make Synaptics work for my trackpad (more specially the Magic Trackpad 2, but this is an other matter).
For now, libinput is taking the command of the trackpad, and for that specific ...
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Synaptics Touchpad Will Not Scroll - Refuses to Reset without full Restart
I'm on Windows 8.1 using an HP Envy 17t. I haven't had problems until yesterday.
OK. Yes, I found that one thread that said to run this bat:
taskkill -f -im syntpenh.exe
cd C:\Program Files\...
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Strange behavior involving right-click on laptop
(Synaptics TouchPad V1.3 on SMB Port, 19.0.19.1 / Windows 10, all updates installed)
Left-click is working normally on my laptop. However, when I click the right-click button, nothing happens.
The ...
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Enable circular scrolling
I'm trying to enable circular scrolling in my touchpad with synaptics, but something is preventing me of doing so. My 50-synaptics.conf looks like this:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad ...
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Synaptics driver clicks when using Styk on Windows 10
I am using a HP-EliteBook 8570w and I have some problems with my touchpad since I installed Windows 10 (64-bit).
If I try to drag something with the "Styk":
then I get a click on every move the ...
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My cursor moves without me touching it
This is a Lenovo r60.
I suspect this is a hardware issue because the same thing happened on my previous OS (Linux Mint) and now its happening again on my new OS (Debian Lenny).
After logging in my ...
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problems using both mouse buttons in my touchpad using Windows 10
I have an a dell 3537 laptop and my problem is related to my touchpad driver (I think).
Usually when I click on both mouse buttons it performs like clicking on the middle mouse button on regular ...
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Double tap or single tap on mouse pad synaptics 19.0.12.95 on windows 10 not working
Double tap or single tap on mouse pad synaptics 19.0.12.95 on windows 10 not working. Will I have to wait for updated driver or is there a way to change settings? I previously had windows 7.
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