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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Absolute location on touchpad on surface devices
The Surface Diagnostic Toolkit has a test for the touchpad that uses the absolute location of your finger on the touchpad.
Is there any way to get this absolute location?
In case that it's device ...
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Coordinate Transformation Matrix with stylus
I have been trying to get the stylus on my Surface Go 1st generation working with WattOS (Debian 12 based, LXDE) on a left screen rotation. Using:
xrandr -o left
I can get the screen to rotate left. ...
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Can I water wash my laptop keyboard?
There is a lot of dirty dust went into my keyboard or near it. I opened my laptop and try to took the keyboard off. But turns out it's welded on the panel, so I took off the panel and wondering if I ...
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Device Manager - Windows changes power settings without my permission
I have a touchpad problem with my settings in Device Manager in Windows 11.
I have drivers that control the touchpad on my laptop (Dell Precision 7780). I have set the "Allow the computer to turn ...
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How to disable accidental trackpad input in newer silicon M1/M2/M3 macOS Sonoma?
I know we have an old thread on the Apple SE site about this, but none of the posted solutions work on the newer Apple silicon (M1/M2/M3) Macs running macOS Sonoma.
I have tested Karabiner-Multitouch-...
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Unexpected key presses logged on trigger of a touchpad gesture mapped to Function keys greater than 12
I'm trying to programmatically assign a key press (F24) to a four-finger tap gesture using the module pynput in Windows. I simply started recording for the shortcut and sent the (F24) key via the ...
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Touchpad Right-Click on Debian
I am running Linux Mint Debian Edition on my Chromebook laptop. ChromeOS has an amazing feature where if you hold ALT, then click, a right click will register. I did some quick searches online and I ...
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How to verify that the touchpad is physically connected
I need help troubleshooting the Synaptics touchpad on my HP Probook 4540s running Windows 10. First and foremost, how can I verify, by software or hardware (in that
order of preference), that the ...
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Middle-button click-and-drag trackpad vs. mouse weirdness
I am running RHEL 8.9 on a Dell Precision 7560 laptop with a built-in 3-button trackpad (left, middle and right buttons all situated between the trackpad and front edge of the laptop). I have a gtk3 ...
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Elan touchpad keeps re-enabling
I want to permanently disable the Elan touchpad on my LG 15Z960 laptop and just use a mouse. I can disable it in settings but a few minutes later it is enabled again. I was able to disable it long ...
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Amazon Workspaces doesn't scroll very well when using a macbook touchpad
I have a macbook pro and am using Ubunutu in Amazon workspaces. The scrolling using the two finger gesture only sometimes works. Seems to somewhat work when doing the whole gesture quickly including ...
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How to fix MacBook Pro rebooting every 3 minutes due to missing dfrd checkins
The MacBook Pro of a friend reboots every 3 minutes after it's turned on. It shows the following message after rebooting:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffff00e688560): userspace watchdog timeout: no ...
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How to change mouse to left handed but keep touchpad right handed in Windows 11?
Windows 10 had a 'Mouse Properties' window; if you had multiple mouse drivers installed, each device would show up in a separate tab allowing you to set left and right mouse buttons independently.
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On-board touchpad and keyboard suddenly stopped working one day on HP Probook 640 G2 running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
My HP ProBook's (running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) touchpad and keyboard have been unresponsive for a while (along with the trackball button too which comes with probooks, that's also unresponsive). It was ...
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Inverse scrolling (aka natural scrolling) ONLY for 2nd keyboard in Windows 11?
I use a regular keyboard and mouse for my PC running Windows 11 and I use the default scrolling (scroll the wheel down to scroll down). However, I have my PC plugged into a TV in another room and use ...
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