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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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"?
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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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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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