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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Is it possible to disable Precision Touchpad's scrolling inertia?
I have a ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC laptop that comes with Windows 10 and a Precision Touchpad.
While using the touchpad I find that the two-finger smoothing is very smooth, but it comes with inertia ...
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Touch pad usage will randomly copy-paste text from the screen
Whenever I use the touch pad to scroll with two fingers, some lines of text in the current window are copy-pasted. This happens very rarely (maybe once a week).
I am certain that this is not caused ...
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temporarily disable touchpad and keyboad, i.e. babyproofing my linux laptop
Following up with this other question, how can I temporarily disable the touchpad (both movements and buttons) as well as the keyboard in Linux Ubuntu Hardy? I mean, there is a menu for disabling the ...
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Adjust MBP trackpad scrolling speed in Windows
Does anyone know how the scrolling speed for the trackpad can be changed in Windows? I installed the bootcamp drivers but I can't find this option anywhere. THe scrolling is way to fast on Windows ...
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Disable tap to click in xubuntu
What is the "preferred" method to turn off tap to click in Xubuntu 9.10? It's not available in Settings->Mouse the way it is in Ubuntu.
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On my netbook, how can I disable the touch pad while I'm typing to avoid bumping it?
I'm getting very frustrated with this. I know I can use an external mouse and disable the touch pad, but that isn't always convenient.
I'm running Windows 7 on an EEEPc 900HA
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Disabling trackpad on Lenovo laptop
How do I disable my mouse trackpad on a Lenovo notebook running Windows 7?
Usually Lenovo installs with tools which allows you to do so (Ultranav). However, this laptop has a modified image installed ...
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Windows 10 touchpad Release Drag after Finger Lift
I have a Samsung Laptop with ELAN touchpad.
The only features I like from a touchpad are..
Tap to Click.
Double Tap to Right Click.
Two Finger Scrolling.
Drag Windows. But Release immediately after ...
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How do I disable the right click on my Samsung Series 9 trackpad?
Every time I click in the bottom right region on my trackpad, it's interpreted as a right click. This is annoying me to no end.
I looked through the mouse settings in Control Panel, but there seems ...
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Use cheap graphic tablet as a trackpad
since I have zero experience with tablets, I have a question to ask about this.
Is it possible to use (cheap) graphic tablet as a trackpad device, with your finger, and how (if possible at all)?
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How to make the Windows 8 trackpad edge swipe zones smaller?
I'm running Windows 8 on a Lenovo x220 laptop; and have just inadvertently discovered the edge-swipe feature or that brings up the charms or switches between desktop and RT. Only problem is that the ...
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How can I get the MacBook Pro trackpad to work on Windows 8?
I can't seem to get the trackpad to work on my MacBook Pro. I have tried the Boot Camp drivers with no luck.
Does anybody know what drivers are needed for Windows 8 and a MacBook Pro trackpad?
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How do I make my Asus touchpad behave in a reasonable way?
I recently purchased an Asus X550L computer. It came pre-bundled with an ASUS Windows 8.1 that I immediately wiped, to ensure I get a "clean" install without any superfluous junk that the OEM decided ...
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Left click not working on touchpad or mouse
I have a very strange problem.
I own a Lenovo ThinkPad E530c. At one point in its life, the left click on the touchpad simply decided to stop working. That keyboard-bound left-click button also did ...
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OSX Remapping Physical Trackpad Click for Mac
The MacBook trackpad is a marvellous thing. Assuming that one uses the 'tap to click' functionality exclusively (including the double tap to click-hold within Usability settings) as I do, the physical ...
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How do I right-click-drag with a single button touchpad in Windows 10?
I have a laptop with Windows 10. It has a Macbook-style touchpad, where it is just one big button. In the control panel, I can set right-click to tapping with two fingers. However, if I want to ...
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Surface Type Cover stops working when rotated
I'd like to be able to use my Surface Pro 6 in this sort of position:
The rotation lock button is disabled when the keyboard is connected, so I first disconnected the keyboard and enabled rotation ...
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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 toggle "Tap to Click" on macOS sierra
So I wanted to toggle this setting from the terminal. I grep'd through defaults read | grep -i click and spotted that toggling this through "System Preferences" changed keys:
com.apple.driver....
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How do I make the region for right click on the trackpad larger?
Right now I have secondary click set to bottom right corner in system preferences, but I would like for secondary click to be detected on the right half of the track pad. On my pc the trackpad comes ...
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How to disable touchpad when external mouse is connected
In How to disable my netbook's touchpad when a usb mouse is connected I could not find an answer for my question.
Some laptops have drivers that automatically disable touchpad when an external ...
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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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Way too fast scrolling in Emacs on Win10
My question is almost the same as this one: Way too fast scrolling in Emacs on OSX
I am using Emacs 26.1 on a Windows 10 machine. The scrolling speed when using the trackpad is much higher than when ...
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On Windows 10, I cannot two-finger-scroll in Google Inbox with Chrome
I have a Dell XPS 13 (2015) which I just upgraded to Windows 10. I can no longer scroll using two-finger drag on the touchpad when in Google Inbox, using Chrome 45.0.2454.15. I can still scroll using ...
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linux can send fn key and disable touchpad?
I am using a laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to send a Fn+F8 from a script in order to disable my touchpad.
When i type the command xdotool key fn, it prints
(symbol) No such key name 'fn'. ...
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Linux Mint 14 seems to Randomly Change Workspaces on Laptop
I am running Linux Mint 14 (Cinnamon) in a VirtualBox VM on Windows 8 host using an HP Envy 17" laptop. It seems like it randomly decides to show the workspace selection screen while I'm doing ...
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Drag and drop using the notebook touchpad?
How can I drag and drop using the notebook touchpad?
I'm using Windows Vista on a Dell Inspiron
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ELAN Touchpad Reverse Scrolling
I have a Samsung Chronos 7 laptop that has reverse scrolling enabled and I can't seem to figure out how to switch it to natural scrolling. I tried to do it through through the registry with no luck. I ...
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Adobe Reader plugin for Firefox steals touchpad scrolling input
When a PDF file is open in Firefox 4 in the Adobe Reader plugin, I am unable to scroll using the touchpad multi-touch gestures in other pages in the browser. Instead, the scrolling input is stolen by ...
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Get back the touchpad scrolling missing in Kubuntu 10.04
How do I get back the touchpad scrolling in Kubuntu 10.04?
I upgraded my Gateway NV52 and can no longer scroll vertically with my touchpad. I'm really missing that feature since it helps to ease the ...
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