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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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 10: Enable system-wide smooth scrolling
This question is a bit different from others that I have found, because the solutions to them have always been "change the scroll setting to 1 line at a time". I won't be satisfied by that. I don't ...
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Fixing ELAN Trackpoint driver 31.21.7.1 touchpad downtime after click
On X1 Carbon G7 and X1 Yoga 4G, the ELAN Trackpoint driver (31.21.7.1) is causing downtime for the movement of the touchpad cursor. When the buttons above the touchpoint are clicked, the cursor does ...
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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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Mousewheel/Touchpad does not scroll but only in the Settings-app on WIndows 10 - otherwise it scrolls fine
Actually the title says it all.
I have two new Windows 10 installations on two different Notebooks.
Mouse (Touchpad) works fine, scrolls fine, all is good.
Only in the Settings-app (the cogwheel) in ...
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Middle-button click-and-drag trackpad vs. mouse weirdness
I am running RHEL 8.9 on a Dell Precision 7560 laptop with a built-in 3-button trackpad (left, middle and right buttons all situated between the trackpad and front edge of the laptop). I have a gtk3 ...
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windows 10 problems on toshiba satellite C655D
I had Windows 7 Home Premium but then upgraded to windows 10. Now my touch pad won't work. I don't have a touch screen since my laptop is from 2011. Is there a way to get my touch pad working again? ...
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How can I fix jumpy touchpad response in xorg?
I have a newly-purchased ASUS 1015E-DS2 which came pre-loaded with Ubuntu, and the touchpad response is so bad to make the machine unusable without an external mouse. During small motions it randomly ...
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Keyboard and Track Pad Issues After Dissassembly/Cleaning/Repairs
I disassembled my laptop after some possible water damage (I did not see any on the motherboard, nor the track-pad chip, but I have not seen the other side of the track-pad PCB in detail [unless maybe ...
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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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The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook suddenly stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04
The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04.
Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7.
How can I enable ...
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Elan touchpad keeps re-enabling
I want to permanently disable the Elan touchpad on my LG 15Z960 laptop and just use a mouse. I can disable it in settings but a few minutes later it is enabled again. I was able to disable it long ...
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Amazon Workspaces doesn't scroll very well when using a macbook touchpad
I have a macbook pro and am using Ubunutu in Amazon workspaces. The scrolling using the two finger gesture only sometimes works. Seems to somewhat work when doing the whole gesture quickly including ...
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How to fix MacBook Pro rebooting every 3 minutes due to missing dfrd checkins
The MacBook Pro of a friend reboots every 3 minutes after it's turned on. It shows the following message after rebooting:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffff00e688560): userspace watchdog timeout: no ...
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How to disable trackpoint without disabling left and right click on a Thinkpad?
I am currently using a Lenovo Thinkpad E560. I want to disable the buggy trackpoint but when I do, the physical left and right click buttons are disabled along with it. The touchpad still allows me ...
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Touchpad response badly when connecting monitor
When I connect my laptop to a monitor through the HDMI connection, I have a hard time controlling the mouse using the touchpad.
I'll try to explain as best as I can:
The touchpad works perfectly ...
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How to change mouse to left handed but keep touchpad right handed in Windows 11?
Windows 10 had a 'Mouse Properties' window; if you had multiple mouse drivers installed, each device would show up in a separate tab allowing you to set left and right mouse buttons independently.
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Is there software to turn a laptop touchpad into a drawing pad in Windows?
How can turn my laptop touchpad into a drawing pad?
I searched a lot for this but the only thing I found was a software called Inklet the problem I have is that this software is for Mac only.
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Disable *part of* touchpad on Win 10
Due to the somewhat questionable placement of the touchpad on my ASUS ZenBook device I'd like to disable a certain part of it. Is there a way to do it?
Please note that I am not looking for ways to ...
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Removing a touchpad deadzone in Arch Linux
I have a touchpad on my laptop (ThinkPad X250) running Arch Linux. The problem will be described with respect to the following ASCII-art representation of my touchpad:
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On-board touchpad and keyboard suddenly stopped working one day on HP Probook 640 G2 running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
My HP ProBook's (running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) touchpad and keyboard have been unresponsive for a while (along with the trackball button too which comes with probooks, that's also unresponsive). It was ...
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Disable two-finger click for right click, but keep two-finger tap
Symptoms:
Go into TouchPad settings and disable "Press the lower right corner of the touchpad to right click"
Also disable "Tap with two fingers to right click"
Then--while holding your tracking ...
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Inverse scrolling (aka natural scrolling) ONLY for 2nd keyboard in Windows 11?
I use a regular keyboard and mouse for my PC running Windows 11 and I use the default scrolling (scroll the wheel down to scroll down). However, I have my PC plugged into a TV in another room and use ...
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How do I disable (or replace the effect of) "overscrolling" in Windows 10?
I'm an OSX user and don't like that the scrolling feature moves the entire window on Windows 10. This creates a jarring effect on the entire screen, when I'm dealing with only a particular document.
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Windows 11 Touchpad right-click
There's an option in Control Panel "Press the lower left corner of the touchpad to right-click". Is there no "Press the lower right corner of the touchpad to right-click"?
My ...
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Windows 11 controlling two finger scroll speed on a T490 ThinkPad
I have a Windows 11 machine (T490 ThinkPad). When I two finger scroll its a bit slower than I'd like. On my Mac there is an option in accessibility settings to change the speed of two finger scroll.
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How do I disable Excel touch scroll bounce at top of sheet?
How can I disable Microsoft Excel's sheet overscroll bounce animation when touchpad scrolling to the top or left of sheet on Windows 10?
You can see what I mean by the video here, https://imgur.com/a/...
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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 to quickly & easily toggle touchpad on and off on a windows 10 laptop?
I am wondering if there's a way to easily toggle the touch-pad on and off on a windows 10 computer that doesn't have a location on that can be tapped to do that action (upper left corner of the touch ...
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Cursor moves slightly during trackpad click
I've noticed this on a few laptops, but this question is specifically for the Dell XPS 13 with the precision touchpad. Often if I attempt to click using the trackpad, the cursor will move slightly ...
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Touch pad does not want to reenable in Linux Mint
I’ve been having issues with this yesterday. I cannot do ANYTHING with my touch pad on Linux Mint specifically, I accidentally disabled it and now it does not re-enable using fn+f9. This issue does ...
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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 change the behaviour of touchscreen in Ubuntu?
I have a touchscreen connected to my Ubuntu 22.04 PC. When I move my finger across screen, the cursor moves with it, but the left mouse button isn't being pressed at the same time. That is, it's e.g. ...
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Replacing Dell touchpad drivers with Synaptic ones
I was temporarily using a budget Acer laptop for a while since my preferred Dell laptop had some h/w issues. Now that I got it back working I realized the touchpad driver on the cheap Acer was ...
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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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MacBook Pro - Why does the keyboard/trackpad being plugged in cause reboot loop?
I came here because I wasn't sure if this is a question for StackOverflow.
My friend's MacBook Pro was/is stuck in an infinite reboot loop. We would see the apple logo and the loading bar for a good ...
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ASUS VivoBook S200E Windows 8.1 Touchpad Precision Settings missing
I am having problem with Touchpad Precision settings on my ASUS VivoBook S200E, which is running Windows 8.1.
I have successfully installed update KB2975719 which should bring the Touchpad Precision ...
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Moving cursor with two fingers on Windows like on Mac
On mac, when I tap and hold the touchpad to select some text with one finger, and use my second finger to move the cursor, the cursor moves allowing me to lift and use my second finger to move the ...
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How can I programmatically alter Elan touchpad scroll direction?
The Problem & Objective
Recent WinOS updates appear to be wiping touchpad configuration settings (as applied through the frontend Settings user space); particularly, having the touchpad scroll ...
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Touch pad mouse stopped working often in Windows 11
Touch pad mouse stopped working suddenly often for Windows 11 on Dell Inspiron 2 in 1.
Tried all things suggested on internet. Driver latest.
The solution: I have to reboot computer and go to BIOS ...
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Disable trackpad when mouse is connected (Dell laptop)
When typing on the keyboard of my Dell laptop, my palm occasionally slips over the trackpad, moving the cursor to another position in the text or putting focus on another window.
I'd like to find a ...
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touchpad not working on lenovo ideapad flex 5 14ABR8 when using linux
when using kubuntu/latest debian/lubuntu/ a lenovo ideapad flex 5 14ABR8 the touchpad doesnt work. it is not listed under the devices for libinput. i have so far tried:
installing xserver-xorg-input-...
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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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How do I enable 3 finger scrolling in Windows 10?
If I disable 3 and 4-finger gestures in Touchpad Settings, using that many fingers simply does nothing. I would like it to scroll instead so I don't have to keep fingers lifted up while scrolling. Is ...
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Intermittant Touchpad Driver
I'm having trouble with touchpad drivers that are intermittently failing, and would appreciate further steps for troubleshooting. I've searched for help on Acer forums, but they've failed to provide a ...
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Touchpad scroll gesture registered as pinch zoom in Outlook
When I compose a message in Outlook and scroll using my touchpad's two finger gesture up or down, often it is registered as pinch zoom gesture. This is very annoying! I like to keep my zoom level at ...
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How do I disable the annoying touchpad edge swipe gestures in Windows 10 for generic touchpads?
I need some help in turning off/disabling the touchpad edge swipe gestures in my Windows 10 2-in-1. When I swipe from the right, it brings up the Action Center. When I swipe from the left, it brings ...
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Google Chrome Pinch gesture to magnify instead of zooming
on my work notebook, when I pinch touchpad in Chrome, I'm getting magnification effect (no layout change), but on my private notebook I'm getting a zoom level change (with page layout change) and I ...
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Firefox touchpad scrolling is laggy/slow only on battery power
In Firefox version 59.0.2 on a Core i7 6xxx series with the latest nVidia graphics card drivers, when on battery power only, my two-finger touchpad scrolling experience in Firefox is terrible. When I ...
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How to turn on keyboard backlit using the touchpad?
I have an HP Pavilion 15" CS2082TX laptop running windows 10.
Whenever the keyboard backlit goes off after staying inactive for some time, I have to hit a key to turn it on again. How can I turn ...
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