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 there any software or hack to disable touchpad while mouse is plugged in?
Is there any software or a hack that will disable the touchpad while a mouse is plugged in, and re-enable it once the mouse is unplugged?
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Disable two-finger click for right click, but keep two-finger tap
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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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Working KVM switch & wireless keyboard combination? [closed]
Is there a KVM switch that works with a full-size wireless keyboard?
The switch must support a DVI monitor with 1920x1200 resolution. Wireless mouse support would be nice, but a wireless keyboard is ...
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Enable Touchpad Scrolling in Windows 8
How can scroll using the right touchpad scrollbar on Windows 8 Pro 64-bit? On an OEM-installed-7, I was able to scroll on my Acer Aspire 5750-6866.
I tried to install the Windows 7 drivers (Elantech ...
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Two-finger scrolling with Ubuntu 9.10 (Samsung NC10)
Is it possible to configure Ubuntu 9.10 to use two-finger scrolling on a Samsung NC10 netbook? I tried to configure it, but I had no success.
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Is there a way of fine tuning palm rejection settings of libinput?
I am using Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 on a Lenovo Yoga Pro 2. For a while Ubuntu switched to libinput from synaptics. I am happy with libinput in general, except its palm rejection & "disable-touchpad-...
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Can I use my Samsung Galaxy S5 as a trackpad?
My wireless mouse needs to be recharged. My trackpad - too. Is it possible to use my Samsung Galaxy S5 as a trackpad, not wireless preferrably? (I plugged it in my Mac Mini).
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How to find out what touchpad I have under Linux?
I tried lspci, lsusb and lshw but none of those lists my touchpad device. Where to look now?
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Raising and lowering brightness using touchpad gestures on Windows 10
I am trying to configure custom gestures on my Acer laptop with a touchpad.
I have already configured three-finger up and down to be volume up and down, respectively, from windows touchpad settings, ...
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Jumpy scrolling behavior using Chromium with my touchpad hardware buttons
I am experiencing very jumpy scrolling in Chromium. When use my touchpad hardware buttons to click anywhere on a page, and then use two fingers to scroll, the scrolling gesture will cause Chromium to ...
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How to disable 'touch' on new Thinkpad touchpad?
I recently purchased Lenovo Thinkpad T440s which the touchpad is one big button. I am trying Ubuntu 13.10 on this machine.
How do I disable the 'touch' on the touchpad without disabling the clicking? ...
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OS X Lion + MBP + Trackpad = I can drag files in the finder, but they won't drop
I'm not trying to drag and drop to an invalid location. I'm just trying to drag files from one folder to another within the same path. Nothing crazy.
I tap and drag the files, move to the ...
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How to PERMANENTLY disable touchpad tap-to-click on Dell Inspiron/Windows 7
my first time here, so I hope you can help. I've seen a lot of stuff on various forums (including here) about disabling the annoying "tap" function on a laptop touchpad. I learned the hard way not to ...
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Can I write Japanese on my trackpad?
I see Mac OS 10.6 has a new Chinese character input via the trackpad. This looks really cool, but I can't find a detailed description of it, so I'm not sure if I can use it.
Can I use it to enter ...
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Multi touch trackpad gestures for Windows (7)
I have Windows 7 running on my Macbook and I am wondering if it is possible to take advantage of the multi touch trackpad and have (more) gestures, more than the default boot camp drivers give you.
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Sometimes my touchpad changes so that "tap" becomes "start drag" rather than "click". How can I fix this without a reboot?
I have a 2015 Dell XPS (new style), and sometimes it exhibits the above behaviour. Typically once a week or so. I've not noticed any common pattern that triggers it.
A reboot always fixes it, but ...
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Mouse malfunction with beeping noise
I have been having an extremely annoying problem for a couple of months now. My mouse spontaniously stops responding to clicks and scrolling and instead causes a beeping sound (from the speakers) for ...
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Reduce single tap delay in Mac OS after enabling tap drag
(OS X Mavericks) If you enable "System Preferences / Accessibility / Mouse & Trackpad / Trackpad Options / Enable dragging", you will be able to "double tap to drag", but there will be an annoying ...
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How to turn Windows' "touch mode" off?
After installing a touch pad driver on my laptop, it seems somehow my Windows turn on some kind of "touch mode". There's a touch keyboard icon on the task bar, I tried to turn it off but it keeps ...
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Using outlook.office.com OVERRIDES Windows 10 setting disabling Touchpad (!!!)
This is bizarre. When I use e-mail at office.outlook.com with the current and recent versions of Firefox the Touchpad gets intermittently ENABLED, completely destroying my productivity. Things happen ...
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Why does my Dell laptop touchpad stop physically clicking when I'm at altitude?
I have a Dell XPS 9560 - the touchpad will physically click when the bottom edge is depressed, except when my laptop is at high-altitude[1] the touchpad physically stops clicking and pressing down on ...
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How to prevent touchpad scrolling from carrying over to different tabs on Windows/Chrome?
When I use my touchpad to scroll on chrome and switch/open tabs, the "scrolling motion/input" carries over to the next tab, and since I am pressing Ctrl to open/switch to a tab, it zooms in the next ...
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Alternative to Autohotkey to Middle click and drag on a trackpad with Windows 10?
I have a typical 2017 Ultrabook, the Yoga 910. It has a trackpad with no separate buttons; bottom left portion of the trackpad is left click, bottom right is right click. There is no region of the ...
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How to enable three finger swipe in linux (Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit)?
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit on my system.
how to enable three finger swipe here, how can i set an event in three finget swipe ?
e.g if i want to switch workspace in 3 finger swipe,...
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Three-finger swipe browser back
Windows 10 broke my three-finger swipe to browser back. Now, it is the same action as the one-finger swipe-from-left-edge to switch programs provided in Windows 8/8.1. Is there any way to get it ...
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How can I use a laptop pointing stick for scrolling up/down?
My laptop has a touchpad but it's not multi-touch so I cannot use it to scroll up/down with two finger gestures. I was wondering if I could use the "pointing stick" in the keyboard to do the scrolling ...
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Disable a section of the mousepad?
I purchased a hp envy 4 ultrabook. Its great but I'm infuriated at the touchpad. The click buttons and the touch pad are combined together but the click button area is touch sensitive. I usually rest ...
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Editing new Lenovo touchpad zones in Linux
Just got a Lenovo T440p - love the laptop, hardware's great - and I was all excited to put Mint Linux on it. Install worked fine, zero show-stopper issues, but there's one persistent annoyance with it ...
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Elan Smart Pad turn off auto select
I have purchased a Asus laptop with a built-in Elan SmartPad, running Windows 7. Options are selected when I leave the pointer over an item without tapping or double clicking pad. How do I turn this ...
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MacBook Pro Trackpad freeze / holds click on its own
My MacBook Pro's Trackpad shows an annoying behavior in the last few days. I think the only relevant thing that changed is the firmware for the Trackpad. An update has been distributed via Software ...
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