I once disabled my touchpad because I would rub against it while typing and it would move my mouse elsewhere. I have since re-enabled it from the same place (system -> preferences -> pointing device) but it remains disabled at next boot up.
I know it's a per-user setting, because when I logon as another user to the same laptop, touchpad remains enabled..
My touchpad is enabled using all the normal methods on my Samsung N150. However, on one userid, it does not work. The touchpad-indicator shows it disabled and the
"Enable Touchpad" feature of touchpad-indicator does nothing. On other userids,
the touchpad can be enabled and disabled.
This is independent of window manager. On other userids, touchpad works with
Unity or gnome.
Inertia started working for me after today's updates. It's very noticeable when trying two-finger slide up and down on chromium using an external Logitech wireless touchpad on a desktop.
It's good news.
Just a quick note to say that for me trying to turn off the touchpad while typing using the menu item System->Preferences->Mouse, then the "Touchpad" tab and "Disable touchpad while typing" didn't work. Accidentally touching the touchpad kept moving the curser around frunstratingly whenever I was typing.
Damned, in Gnome2 on Ubuntu everything works as expected, means the touchpad is instantly enabled again after typing. What were they thinking of setting a delay of 2 seconds (which really feel like 3 seconds here, I mean, I can slowly count to three till the touchpad freeze ends)? This can't be a feature, but a bug, means a bug report would be more appropriate than a feature request.
Hi,
I was trying to get muti-touch working with my touchpad using a fix(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2102346), compilation failed, later I found a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1152343.
Now my touchpad is not working at all...earlier single touch was working...
Thanks in advance
PS: on Ubuntu 13.04 daily build
Hi, all.
I've been working with t400s (Lenovo). Ubuntu v9.04 does not have any problem with my laptop, but Ubuntu v9.10 beta has a problem. One thing I found is that I cannot disable the touchpad.
The function key for enabling and disabling the touchpad ( Fn + F8 ) does not work. Note that other function keys are well working.
I want to use my Thinkpad T40's touchpad for gestures only, not for mouse movement. Is there any way to accomplish that?
Even with disabled Touchpad, synclient shows touchpad strokes, so it should be possible to intercept these strokes and use them for gestures.
I have tried easystroke before, but it didn't seem to work with my touchpad at all, not even with an enabled one.
I'm running 12.07 on an acer aspire and have had no problems, until I disabled the touchpad using the Fn and F7 keys. This disabled the touchpad fine. But when I went to turn it back on I got the enabled icon appear but the pad didn't work. The computer has been rebooted since this happened but this has made no difference. It is enabled in the settings, usb mouse works fine.
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