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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