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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How can I invert touchpad scroll direction on Windows 10 on my Asus laptop?
I just switched to Windows 10 on my ASUS N550JV and installed related drivers from the support page of ASUS. The touchpad works great, but for some reason the direction of scrolling on touchpad is ...
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Disable two-finger swipe on Firefox
When I scroll along the page or some scrollbox with two fingers on MacBook Pro touchpad, and it can be no longer scrolled to the left, Firefox decides I want to go back in history.
What can I do to ...
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How to "middle-click" on new macbooks
I have recently switched to Mac, and the only thing I miss from my old notebook is the ability to middle-mousebutton-click by clicking both mousebuttons simultaneously.
This is a crucial feature ...
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reduce laptop touch pad sensitivity in ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat installed. The problem is that the tap to click feature on my touchpad is too sensitive in ubuntu. It works fine with windows. I randomly end up clicking things ...
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Three finger drag on Windows
I would like to set up my PC touchpad so that I can drag when touching with three fingers, like on a Mac.
I haven't found a way to do this.
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Modify or disable Windows 8 swipe gestures on touchpad / laptop
I have an ASUS G75VW laptop with a Synaptic touchpad (/trackpad). When I move my finger from one edge towards the middle (the swipe), Windows 8 will bring up different stuff.
This is a problem ...
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Laptop touchpad works incorrectly when on power supply
My original laptop adapter broke down, so I've bought a new one. It's a no-brand adapter from a Dutch internet shop.
The power of the new adapter is slightly more than the old adapter, but in my ...
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How can I emulate middle click in Windows on a touchpad?
On my laptop, the touchpad drivers for it allowed me to emulate middle click by clicking both the left and right mouse buttons at the same time. I'd like to have the same feature on with my netbook's ...
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Can I use a Magic Trackpad on Linux?
I'd like to be able to use my Magic Trackpad with Linux. While I haven't installed Linux yet to test it, the trackpad will connect to Windows on the machine (i.e. it has bluetooth). I'm going to be ...
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Can't use three-finger middle-click in remote desktop
I have a HP laptop. I configured 3-finger tap to simulate a middle click, and it works fine locally on the laptop. However, when I connect to my desktop using Remote Desktop and I try to use the 3-...
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Increase Precision Touchpad two-finger scrolling speed?
The scrolling speed is too slow. It is a Microsoft Precision Trackpad on Windows 10, but I cannot find any option for scrolling speed in the Settings -> Devices -> Touchpad.
Changing the wheel speed ...
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Touchpad does not respond when I am holding key on the keyboard
I am experiencing strange problem with using my touchpad and keyboard simultaneously under Windows 7.
I have HP tx2550ew (convertible tablet), and when I hold some key under Windows 7 (eg. ...
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Asus ATK driver for Windows 10
I'm trying to search the ATK Package driver for Asus Notebooks suitable for Windows 10 but I can find only versions for previous Windows version (8, 8.1, 7). Have Asus already released their ATK ...
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Using keyboard disables touchpad left button for a second on Acer laptop in Windows 8.1
The problem is present in the whole system not only in games: desktop, chrome, games, everywhere.
When I press any "input key" on a keyboard for example in desktop I can't select the file by left ...
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Synaptics - Windows 8.1, updating Synaptics failed
On Windows 8.1, I tried to install the latest Synaptics Touchpad Driver v17.0.19 and it failed for some unknown reasons. Turns out it's problem with Synaptics, not Windows. Synaptics did not "Sign" ...
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How to disable click on touch pad?
I have a laptop with a touch pad running Windows 7 for HP EliteBook 8730w. I find it really annoying that it takes clicks from the touch pad surface.
How can I disable clicks originating from the ...
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Windows 10 Technical Preview - Synaptics Scrolling
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Architecture: 64bit
Build: 9841
Synaptics: v15.3.22
Problem:
Both two-finger and one-finger scrolling functionality does not seem to work for me in certain contexts.
While third-party ...
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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.
Is there ...
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Laptop touchpad response badly when on power supply?
I have HP pavilion 2200 series laptop with AMD processor, 1GB RAM, on board nvidia display card. It suddenly cause following problem:
When the adapter is unplugged, the touchpad works correctly and ...
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Disable touch pad for mouse button region on new HP pavillion models?
i bought a new hp pavillion dv6 series laptop. the laptop itself is fine but it has the new hp touchpad mouse which i absolutely hate. its such a stupid problem to have with a computer. the left and ...
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Two mice, two separate settings on mac
Is it possible to have separate settings (tracking speed, scrolling speed etc...) for each individual pointing device on OS X?
In system preferences there are separate settings for mice and trackpads,...
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One finger scrolling on a MacBook touchpad
After an accident that damaged my hands, I am no longer able to do the two finger scrolling gesture on a MacBook touchpad. On Windows I set up so called "scrollzone", it allows me to scroll smoothly ...
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Block the Synaptics Touchpad Driver Diagnostics dialog. The registry fix does not work
I'm running Windows 10 and I use the Alt+Shift+L shortcut, which brings up this annoying dialog:
I've already run the registry key fix as follows, and reset the computer afterward:
reg add ...
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How to reset/restart an internal Macbook trackpad driver?
My Macbook's trackpad occasionally starts behaving erratically but after a system restart it works well again (at least for a while).
I'm still looking for a solution to the root problem of the ...
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Asus Smart Gesture getting CPU to 3GHz
I bought a new Asus Ux303ln laptop and the touchpad drivers (asus smart gesture) gets the cpu frequency up to 3GHz everytime I scroll with 2 fingers. This seems to be using alot of power and I only ...
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Touchpad support for SublimeText 3
I love SublimeText 3, but the only thing stopping me from buying a licence is the lack of decent touch(pad) support. I often work on the road, and some decent swipe/scroll support on touch and ...
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What are the three buttons above touchpad in the Dell Latitude E6520 laptop?
I wonder what are the three buttons added to the touchpad/keyboard of the laptop Dell Latitude E6520 as the below snapshot.
I do a google search as here though nothing helpful for me.
If you know ...
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How to disable my netbook's touchpad when a usb mouse is connected
This is the first computer I have ever bought and I couldn't bring it home without a mouse of its own. I'm trying to disable the touchpad but the only option I find is by uninstalling the drivers, ...
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Touchpad sensitivity scales to virtual screen dimensions
I am experimenting with attaching a second monitor to my Ubuntu Natty laptop, and I have noticed an annoying "feature" that makes any multi-monitor setup so unusable that I actually prefer my single-...
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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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