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Synaptics Touchpad is a utility for configuring multitouch on laptop touchpads. Not to be confused with the Synaptic Package Manager, for which the "synaptic" tag should be used instead.

Synaptics Touchpad is a tool for configuring multitouch functionality on laptop touchpads using the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics driver.

More information on how to use this utility can be found at this Ubuntu Documentation page.

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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop

This seems like a common problem, but after trying all of the fixes I've found on forums, I'm still at a loss. Specs: computer: Asus k501LX-EB71 OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3 kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic touchpad: Elantech touchpad driver:…
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04

There is a problem with my laptop — jumping cursor. I think the hardware is the source of the problem. Maybe toucpad is just very inaccurate when getting finger coordinates and touching events. On Ubuntu 14.04 I just set vertical and horizontal…
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50-synaptics.conf options not working

How does Ubuntu come up with the default synaptics settings? I've got Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 installed on an Eeepc 900. Out of the box TapButton2 was set to 3, and TapButton3 was set to 2. I have several custom synaptics settings I want as system wide…
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Mac like MultiTouch support

I don't remember how but in 11.10 I had managed to find a few multitouch actions to be supporetd by some software. Now I am using 12.04, Is there any way/application/workaround/plugin or anything that can provide me with multitouch gestures similar…
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How do I restore two finger middle click again?

it used to be that tapping two fingers on the touchpad send a middle mouse click. Now it does a right click and three fingers now are the middle click. I really can't understand the change and think it is a bug or badly copied from Apple or…
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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 15.10(Gnome)

I upgraded my ubuntu gnome installation to 15.10 and everything is kinda good except for the touchpad single-tap functionality. Single-tap-to-click is not working. And I have tried all possible solutions like editing synaptics.conf file. One thing…
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Fingerprint reader in ubuntu 18.04

I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad e580 with Ubuntu 18.04 I tried fingerprint-gui but it says "no devices found!". lsusb command results this: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 06cb:00a2 Synaptics, Inc.…
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How can I personalize my MacBook Pro Touchpad?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a MacBook Pro 5.5. I'm just wondering if there is something that takes all the kinks out of the touch-pad. It works good, but it feels sluggish, double tap works about 75% of the time and sometimes while I it somehow…
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 - Tap to click is not reliable anymore

I upgraded from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 and realized tap to click is not reliable anymore. Approximately 40% of taps simply does nothing. Did you notice similar issues? Is it possible to fix this? (I use lenovo l450). Edit: I use xorg session.
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How do I load the synaptics driver on 12.04? (Scrolling does not work)

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my new Lenovo z580 laptop. The touchpad maker is Synaptics. However Ubuntu is unable to load the Synaptics driver, although the driver has been installed. Due to this, I am unable to use scrolling on my touchpad. The…
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Touchpad palm sensitivity

I'm using (K)ubuntu 12.04 LTS with a Synaptics touchpad. The palm sensitivity it terrible, whenever I'm typing the mouse suddenly jerks off to a different place. Is there a way to enable/increase palm sensitivity?
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What's the recommended way to configure a Synaptics touchpad device?

I want to increase the scroll area by moving the so-called RightEdge a bit towards the middle. Right now I'm doing this via a one-liner that's called at session start (added via gnome-session-properties): xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 11…
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How do I disable Touchpad corner functionalities? (e.g. copy, paste, context, right-click)

Using my touchpad on my Unity desktop I have discovered the following: Tapping the corners of the touchpad results in: Top-right corner: Paste command. Top-left corner: Copy command. Bottom-right corner: Right-click or Context Menu…
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Adaptive acceleration for touchpad on Ubuntu 17.10

I recently updated from Ubuntu 16.04 running Unity to 17.10 running GNOME. Since the upgrade, I'm missing the adaptive acceleration feature on my touchpad. I absolutely loved it because it was more accurate for shorter distances. On digging a bit, I…
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How to lock touchpad while typing

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Inspiron N5110. As the touch pad is a bit large in this model it’s frequently getting in my way while typing. Although I try my best to not touch it, the cursor still gets moved and ruins what I am typing. I remember…
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