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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What is the easiest way to disable the touch pad on a laptop?
What is the easiest way to disable the touch pad on a laptop?
I have a laptop which lacks a means to turn off the touchpad with a simple Function key sequence. I would like to disable the touchpad ...
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Trackpad gestures on Asus VivoBook stopped working after using mouse
I have had my laptop for a month now, and had no problems.
I recently got a mouse to go with my laptop in order to play games. However, ever since I started using this mouse, all of the gestures have ...
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Disable trackpad when mouse is plugged in - Windows 7 Macbook Pro
I just installed Windows 7 64-bit on my Macbook Pro. I would like the trackpad to be disabled when I plug in a USB mouse. Is this possible?
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How do I enable "Momentum" (aka "Inertia") on a notebook with an Elan touchpad?
I have a Lenovo notebook (Win 8) with a touchpad that's manufactured by Elan (aka Elantech).
I've previously used a Synaptics touchpad on my old notebook and have gotten accustomed to its features ...
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Is it possible to invert the trackpad orientation for Mac OS X?
I'm running a MBP with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and recently got an external (Magic) Trackpad. I don't like the angle of the trackpad and want to flip it around so that the battery bar is on the side ...
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Is there an easy way to disable this laptop's touchpad?
Specifically, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 1525. I'd like to disable the touchpad so that I can re-enable if my mouse were to run out of batteries (so physically breaking the connection to the motherboard ...
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Using Dell middle trackpad button as middle mouse button?
I have one of the various Dell laptops that actually has 5 buttons around the trackpad (a Latitude E5550):
I really like the middle mouse button and use it quite often, so I would like to use the ...
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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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How do you make the touchpad ignore touch input from the thumb when it's resting at the bottom of the touchpad?
So nearly all PC laptops in the past couple years have shipped with touchpads that lack physical buttons--the whole pad is a button.
Being used to Macs, I've encountered an issue with nearly every PC ...
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Disable parts of the 2017 Macbook's trackpad?
I'm forced to use a Macbook at work and I really dislike the trackpad. It has horrible palm detection, so it often registers unintended inputs. Is there a way to disable the edges of the trackpad? E.g....
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Permanent disabling of touchpad
I own a Dell Inspiron N5050 Notebook running Windows 7 Home Premium. I am trying to permanently disable the touchpad. I installed the appropriate driver in order to manage my touchpad preferences, and ...
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How does touchpad in laptop detect a tap?
I just wonder, how does the touchpad detect your tap? Does it detect by pressure?
I tried to tap it with my fingernail, it didn't respond. It only respond if I tap if with my finger tip.
I am using ...
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Firefox pinch zoom without trackpad
Is there a shortcut or a setting in about:config that allows me to use the pinch zoom feature with mouse and keyboard only? I dont' have a touch pad but like the pinch zoom much more than the classic &...
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Disable trackpad on windows 10
I'd like to disable my laptop trackpad on windows 10 (ASUS type, should that matter). I've tried all the options found while searching via google, most of which target windows 7/8.x. In addition, I've ...
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Chrome keyboard losses focus when using two finger scroll
I Have a Dell XPS 15 (9530), Chrome 34.0.1847.116.
When using two finger swipe on the touch pad in order to scroll, the tab wouldn't accept keyboard presses anymore, e.g. the Backspace wouldn't go ...
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What is a good external trackpad for a Mac? [closed]
I am getting a laptop stand for my MacBook Pro to help with ergonomics when at my desk. Getting an external keyboard isn't a concern, but I have become accustomed to using the trackpad and gestures ...
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Asus Zenbook UX31A touchpad driver no longer works in Windows 10
As the title says, I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 and now the multitouch no longer works. The Asus website doesn't appear to have drivers for Windows 8 or 10 (although the Windows 7 drivers ...
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How to make the pointer glide on Mac OS X?
I just moved from Dos To Mac. On my old laptop I could configure the touchpad to "glide" with the synaptic driver. That is the pointer would continue to move a bit after I lift my moving finger off ...
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How to restart mouse(touchpad) driver in Windows 10 without system restart?
When using my Sony Vaio laptop, my mouse touchpad sometimes starts acting up. When on Ubuntu, I simply type these 2 commands in terminal to restart my mouse.
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
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OS X trackpad click-to-drag delay
I am so frustrated with the trackpad behavior in OS X. If you turn on "click to drag" with "drag lock" OFF there is still a delay where the mouse is "locked" in drag mode. That is, if I double click ...
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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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Windows 10 Scroll Wheel Not Working In All Windows
Just upgraded to Windows 10 on my (~5 year old) laptop, and overall I like it; however, I've got one little quibble with it that I haven't yet found a solution too... When attempting to use the scroll ...
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Get side scroll area back on laptop trackpad
A week ago I stupidly decided to download the Synaptics driver from their website and install it on my laptop, hoping it would give me more features. It didn't. Instead, it actually removed a lot of ...
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How to tell X.org to reload input device module? (Working around suspend-to-ram crash on Acer laptop)
When X.org boots up, Synaptics touchpad works well. But when I remove the module it falls back to /dev/input/mice and don't use normal driver even when touchpad is available again.
Xorg.0.log:
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How to disable trackpad for HP Elitebook 840 G5
As the question states, I am simply trying to disable my touchpad on my HP laptop. So I think this is very specific for the HP Elitebook 840 G5 as I have tried the following generic methods to ...
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How to change three-tap behaviour from cortana to middle click?
I've just updated my Samsung NP730U to Windows 10.
The touchpad driver (Elan Smart-Pad) updated it's driver too, and now the only option for Three-Finger-Tap is invoking Cortana.
I'd much rather ...
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Can't uninstall Asus Smart Gesture
I updated to Windows 10, Smart Gesture is not working, can't type without being annoyed with touchpad, can't turn off the touchpad using fn+f9. I downloaded new version for W10 which says I have ...
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Windows 8 doesn't detect my MacBook Pro trackpad
I have to plugin an external USB mouse in order to use the cursor.
Specs:
Boot Camp 3.3
systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version"
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 8 Pro
OS ...
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Chrome not scrolling with touchpad
not sure where I should be posting this but:
In the last few weeks, chrome has developed an intermittant problem of not allowing me to scroll using my laptop's touchpad. The mouse works in chrome ...
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How to change mouse to left handed but keep touchpad right handed?
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I just had my pc reformatted and I have a change in my "Mouse" window. It shows something like this now:
But it used to show something like this:
In the upper picture, you can only swap the ...
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