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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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How to enable full touch keyboard layout on Windows 10 touch screen machine?

I'm working on updating WIM image for touch screen terminals and requirement came to show touch keyboard in full mode out of the box. Below is a default image I'm looking for the setting to display ...
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How do I fix the I2C HID Device (Code 10) error in Windows 11?

I'm having problems with my Predator Helios 300 laptop touchpad. It sometimes works for a short period of time, but then it stops working for several months. The error message I'm getting is "...
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Thinkpad touchpad keeps randomly switching scroll methods

The touchpad of my Thinkpad t440s keeps randomly switching between edge scrolling and two-finger scrolling under Arch Linux with KDE and X11. When I boot it up I never know which one it is going to be....
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UTM for Windows 11 -- cannot change trackpad scroll direction

I am using an Apple trackpad with my main machine. I now have installed UTM and created a Windows 11 virtual machine. I would like to change the scroll direction. This should be fairly easy on a ...
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Lenovo IdeaPad L340 doesn't recognize touchpad

This laptop I purchased for my wife came in Jan 2021 brand new. Touchpad was working but my wife complained that she hit the touchpad while she is using the keyboard to write things. So, I disabled it ...
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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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Keyboard not working but making clicking sounds

I'm using Asus Vivobook 14. I disabled the touchpad while watching lectures and I think I accidentally turned on filter keys. Because,now none of the keys are working except the power button. But ...
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How to assign three finger tap into right click menu on Windows 11?

I'm using two laptops for a reason. My older Win10 laptop can't assign 2-finger tap at all, only scrolling etc. to 2-finger swipe, so I am used to assign right click menu to 3-finger tap for years. ...
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Surface Laptop 3 trackpad won't select text

I have 2 laptops, one a Surface Laptop 3 (windows 10) and one a Surface Pro 8 (Windows 11). My problem is that the Surface laptop track pad does not seem to support selection of text with the track ...
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Disable touchpad and keyboard on computer when using as tablet

I have an ASUS Vivobook Flip TP301UA laptop running Windows 10. It is a laptop with a 360º screen and a touchscreen, so it can be used as a tablet. However, it is not very practical because when I use ...
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ELAN touchpad can't scroll Windows 10 start menu

I can't seem to scroll on the Windows 10 start menu with an ELAN touchpad. It scrolls on other places though like the Settings app or any other Win32 application but not on the start menu. I've ...
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Pinching touchpad enlarges/magnifies website instead of changing zoom level

When I try to pinch zoom website in Firefox, instead of changing zoom level (like enlarging text but modifying layout so it still fits screen) it enlarges parts of website, adding horizontal scrollbar....
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Windows 10 - Driver issue

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 5 15IIL05, that recently had its screen replaced, the device was ‘outta commission’ for roughly 2.5 months, after replacing the screen and doing the initial reboot, the ...
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What process controls two-finger zoom on Mac?

Every once in a while, plugging my Mac into my monitor when lots of processes are running will crash some of the display agents, like exposé, zoom and other trackpad functions. I figured out some bash ...
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Corrupted Lenovo Ideapad 3 15IIL05 Touchpad Driver

A few months ago, I used Driver Booster 10 to update my drivers on my Lenovo Ideapad 3 15IIL05 running Windows 11. I didn't make a backup because I did not have the pro version. After I updated my ...
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Windows touchpad-like smooth mouse scrolling

Is there a way to enable "real" smooth scrolling system-wide in Windows (11)? I just got Logitech MX Master 3s with a free rotating scroll wheel, but so far smooth scrolling only works in ...
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Deactivate middle mouse button or make middle-click left click?

I have an Asus VivoBook and the touch pad has no buttons, but just areas that functions as buttons. My main problem is that if I left click just a millimeter too far to the right, it is considered a ...
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Settings of touchpad not react on ubuntu

I have one problem which is strange to me. Therefore, the touchpad on ubuntu it's working, but can do not react the new settings change of touchpad. When I apply new settings for touchpad, the result ...
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How to manually configure touchpad and non-Apple mouse in Mac OS through plist editing (without third-party software)?

I have a Logitech bluetooth mouse that I use with a work MacBook. I cannot install mouse configuration third-party software per IT security policy (not worth recommending any of them, I simply can't ...
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Trackpad cursor stuck, but is freed when a mouse is used

After a laptop reboot the cursor is stuck at the upper left corner. When I attach a mouse then the cursor acts normal. No abnormal situation seen on Device Manager HID. Any ideas?
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How can I enable middle-mouse-drag on the touchpad of a Dell Precision 7560 in xorg X11?

I recently acquired a Dell Precision 7560. It has a touchpad with 3 physical buttons. I am unable to perform a middle-mouse-drag operation. Using the xev tool I can see that the left or right mouse ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 mouse speed and trackpad scroll speed are off

How do I change this to match how it feels on windows? Mostly looking at the trackpad scroll speed as it is ridiculous when browsing firefox. Curious if there's any new updates on how to fix this as ...
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Is it possible to change Firefox's zoom type?

Background info on Firefox zooming capabilities: When I do the pinch-in movement on my laptop's touchpad on Firefox, the window zooms in, as if it had a magnifying glass. I'll call this the "...
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How to install Windows precision touchpad driver for a HP Spectre x360 (early 2018 model)

How can I install a precision touchpad driver for a HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae002ng (product no. 2QG13EA#ABD) laptop from early 2018 in Windows 11? The problem is that the Synaptics drivers ...
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How do i disable the "Touchpad on" notification appearing on my screen

The image attached is basically what it looks like. I would screenshot it, but it goes away when I try to. It does get really annoying, trying to play video-games and this appears and kicks me from ...
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Disable pinch to zoom for external keyboard w/ trackpad mac ventura

I have a bluetooth keyboard with a touchpad connected to a macbook running Ventura. I find that the bluetooth keyboard and touchpad, don't respect the mac os system settings I have for my keyboard. In ...
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How to adjust sensitivity of Windows 10 volume control touchpad three-finger gestures

Windows 10 has a Touchpad setting to allow Three-finger gestures to Change audio and volume. I find three-finger-dragging up and down changes the volume too quickly, making it easy to accidentally ...
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My Track pad refuses to respond

I have a Lenovo laptop and its trackpad refuses to respond sometimes after booting up. Same also happens for the scrolling function with the swipe of two fingers. I want to know if it's a software ...
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Customise Arc mouse gestures on windows

I recently bought arc mouse and the lack of gestures in it are a bit disappointing. The microsoft mouse and keyboard centre software lets you customise a 3 finger click. So it means the mouse can ...
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Windows 10 trackpad suddenly overly smoothed/slow

Today my trackpad mouse on my laptop suddenly went from being sharp and responsive to overly smoothed. The scrolling was also smoothed out. I uninstalled my trackpad driver and restarted, and it went ...
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trackpad needs two fingers to move mouse, won't scroll on windows 10

All of a sudden my trackpad has changed it's behavior on a windows 10 Lenovo that hasn't had any updates today. Before it could scroll by holding both fingers down and scrolling, now no scrolling - In ...
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Asus laptop touchpad stopped working and looks disconnected

The problem: I'm using an asus UX410U laptop under windows 10 for high school. Since few months,the touchpad it stopped working when it was heating too much, nothing too disabling for classes. Today, ...
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Toshiba Accupoint making mouse drag

I have a Toshiba Portege Z30, which has an Accupoint rubber stick in the middle that seems to be far too sensitive. Any time the laptop tilts, or even if I hold down the touchpad, it will drag the ...
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Im using a Chromebook 11 3180 and i want to make it so my touchpad stops twitching

Its a chromebook 11 3180. Its also twitchy. What im trying to say is that my mouse pointer keeps twitching, and sometimes does not respond at all even when I do "press esc multiple times and then ...
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Lenovo Yoga 7: keyboard and touchpad stopped working after switch to tablet mode (arch linux)

a few days ago I received my Lenovo Yoga 7 14 AMD (14ARB7). I installed arch linux which worked fine except the tablet mode. So I installed detect-tablet-mode-git from aur. I switched to tablet mode ...
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How can I modify gestures related to an esternal touchpad?

I am using an external usb but I would like to disable the pinching option (i.e. the zoom) while I need to mantain the 2-fingers scrolling. Moreover I don't want to alter the pinch zoom function of ...
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How to make touchpad and other drivers work in Windows 8.1?

I've downloaded a Windows 8.1 x64 disc image and extracted it to a bootable USB pendrive using Rufus. I was once able to install Windows 8.1 in my current machine, however the touchpad didn't work (...
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Where is my Touchpad toggle button missing (Windows 11)?

I'm using a Windows 11 machine and I'm trying to disable the touchpad when an external mouse is plugged in. But, when I go into the settings for the Touchpad: Settings > Bluetooth & devices >...
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How to disable specific zone on touchpad so that thumb resting on button area doesn't cause erratic behavior

I have used laptops with separate manual/mechanical buttons for many years, but need to get a new laptop and they all have full touchpads without separate buttons now. My thumb naturally sits on the ...
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Slowed/smoothed touch pad movement; 2022 dell xps 15; Arch linux

After using my computer for a while, the touch pad starts to become slow. It almost becomes smooth when moving slowly. Please tell me what resources you all would need to help me diagnose this issue.
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Synaptics Touchpad settings missing/not showing

I want to disable the automatic touchpad delay when using both keyboard and touchpad (Synaptics PrecisionTouchpad) at the same time. This has been asked and answered multiple times, including a ...
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How do I switch from two-finger scroll to side scrolling on this HP laptop?

I've recently obtained an HP 17-ca3055cl and much to my annoyance it comes with two-finger scrolling. Worse yet, I can't seem to find where to change the scrolling method. I've already opened up ...
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Facing cursor lag on Chrome on laptop

I have recently been facing cursor lags when I'm scrolling and zooming on Google Chrome. It doesn't occur on any other app, neither on any other search engine. I tried looking for fixes, closed Chrome ...
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Strange cursor behaviour

I seem to be having issues with my trackpad and any mouse I plug into my computer. When I have no mouse plugged in and I move the cursor it seems to stop randomly while i'm still moving my finger ...
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Why does my touchpad sometimes not work unless I hold my finger on it for a few seconds?

My ThinkPad X1 Carbon (7th generation) sometimes has the same problem as this person on Microsoft Answers. Sometimes, after I've been using the computer for a while, the touchpad becomes unresponsive. ...
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How to disable back-forward action when swiping horizontally on trackpad in firefox on linux?

Since a couple of weeks my Firefox installation (Nightly, now on FF 100.0.2) on Linux (Guix, X11, Gnome 40.4) goes back or forward in history when I swipe horizontally on the touchpad (with two ...
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On a brand new MacBook Pro, a regular trackpad click does not work

My brand new MacBook Pro is failing to click. Just like that, everything else works — two-finger right-click, keyboard — everything works. But a plain old regular trackad click just fails to respond. ...
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Touchpad buttons not working for a certain user

Touchpad buttons are not working for my user only. My laptop is: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Nano. For other administrator users, the touchpad buttons are working. How can I resolve this? I have tried ...
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What are those silicone blobs inside trackpad buttons? [closed]

I’m currently trying to fix up a fairly old computer where one of the trackpad buttons is actually missing the little silicone membrane that lets it register clicks. It seems like there’s a little ...
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KDE Plasma with Walyland - Touchpad right click not working

I've installed Debian (LMDE, Linux Mint Debian Edition) with KDE Plasma and Wayland, into Lenovo Ideapad D330 2in1 tablet/netbook. Using X11 session is not a solution, because of random blank screen ...
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