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Questions related to the configuration and activation of touchpads/trackpads.

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How to disable the touchpad?

I want my touchpad to be disabled when I use my mouse. How can I do that? touchpad-indicator has stopped working on 11.10. It used to work on 11.04. Gnome3 is not a solution as I don't like it and find it buggy.
Peng Wu
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Reverse two finger scroll direction (natural scrolling)?

Two-fingered scrolling is working fine, but is there a way that I can reverse the direction (natural scrolling)? It seems backwards opposed to the way OSX does it.
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How to configure the touchpad middle click?

In almost all the large modern Linux distributions and in the last releases of Ubuntu-based distributions the touchpad was configured out of the box to have right, left and middle clicks and you could configure them easily. The middle click is…
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Disable Touchpad While Typing does not work

I already checked that Option in the Settings but it won't work. I also searched for solutions in this site but none of those work. What should I do?
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14.04 Touchpad is too sensitive

My touchpad is way too sensitive. While writing, the cursor jumps suddenly to the place the mouse cursor is sitting. I am not even touching the touchpad! I had the same problem with 12.04 and recently did an upgrade to 14.04, which didn't solve the…
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How do I disable touchpad tap to click?

You've heard this a million times but the "tap to click" is a pain in the behind and I want to disable it. There is no touchpad in gpointing-device-settings and neither in mouse and touchpad in system settings. I've tried some commands in terminal…
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How do I disable the touchpad while typing?

It's impossible to write this way, text gets deleted, windows change, random tabs open. I've tried every solution I came across but none actually solve it (some don't even work) I've tried installing touchpad indicator, I've tried adding a syndaemon…
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Touchpad issue: jumping cursor while typing (Ubuntu 14.04), syndaemon don't help

I know there are other questions about this issue, but I can't find the right tweak in order to fix it. The touchpad still detects my palms while typing stuff. It's REALLY annoying, especially because it spoils my productivity on my brand new Dell…
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Synaptic touchpad on laptop not working

I'm using a laptop with built-in touch-pad that works in Windows 7. But after I switched to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, it's not working now.
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How to disable two-fingers/right-click in touchpad?

I would like to disable the function right-click when tapping the touchpad with two fingers, because it is always interfering with the two-fingers/scrolling function. I also would like to maintain the function left-click when double tapping with one…
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How to enable touchpad?

Yesterday, suddenly my touchpad on my MSI Laptop started to not respond. In other words, in Login screen, touchpad is working as expected. However, in Desktop screen, after I have logged in, touchpad is not working. How can I enable touchpad in…
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How do I disable the touchpad while typing (Ubuntu 18.04)?

I asked this a year ago, with the new (awful) upgrade 18.04 upgrade, the fix got removed and reapplying it doesn't work. I have a laptop, and while typing, my palm touches the touchpad, which makes the mouse move, close tabs by itself, delete words,…
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deactivated touchpad - how to activate?

I just mindlessly deactivated my touchpad in Ubuntu 13.04 through the gnome-control-center and have no clue how to activate it again without the use of the touchpad. Also synclient Touchpadoff=0 doesn't change anything.
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Touchpad is not recognized

I've bought a new laptop (Medion Akoya P6647 MD98567) but the touchpad is not recognized. $ uname -a Linux bookx539 3.15.0-031500-generic #201406131105 SMP Fri Jun 13 15:06:46 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices I:…
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Can you disable PART of a touchpad?

Can you disable only part of a touchpad? I'm using a Lenovo Yoga13, and the touchpad extends down into the click area. So, every time I click, it moves the mouse a little bit. It's pretty annoying. Is there a calibration tool or something? I just…
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