Ubuntu 14.04 Elantech touchpad too sensitive

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I am using samsung series 3 laptop. I recently shifted from Windows 8 to (my touch works just fine on Windows 8).After writing 2-3 words the focus shifts to where the cursor lies. I tried some resolutions suggested on the web but could not resolve the problem.(I want to fix it without buying an external mouse, which is of course a solution). The touchpad is ETPS/2 Elantech as detected in Terminal by xinput.

Right now Synaptic finger is set to 1 1 0 . I tried changing it to 50 90 255 as suggested somewhere on web but it freezes the mouse in that case.

I had a similar problem with mouse sensitivity and my problem was solved by python script. See HERE. — Szczepan, Aug 18 '16 at 14:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '15 at 22:00

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You probably solved your problem, but I'm posting for posterity's sake: changing the Synaptic Finger setting to 5 16 216 solved it for me.

answered Jan 11 '15 at 22:00

Anindya Guha

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These numbers improved things for me, but didn't solve things entirely - where did you get them from? What do you think they mean? – android.weasel Oct 13 '20 at 23:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 18 '16 at 15:42

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Edit 50-synaptics.conf file:

sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

Add the following line:

MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"

Like this:

Section "InputClass"

Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"

Save, exit and reboot.

edited Aug 18 '16 at 15:42

David Foerster

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answered Aug 18 '16 at 13:45

Marko Enea Požgaj

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Ubuntu 14.04 Elantech touchpad too sensitive

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