When in Windows 7 I have the option to have the touchpad automatically be disabled when a usb mouse in plugged in. Then when the mouse in unplugged the touchpad automatically becomes enabled. There is even a light at the top of the touchpad the comes on when it is in disabled mode! Is there a way to duplicate this functionality under Ubuntu 13.04? (I have a Dell Inspiron 15r with Hybrid AMD/Intel graphics.)
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I have a Logitech MX Anywhere wireless USB mouse which works very well with Ubuntu.  However, I would like to disable the touch pad when this mouse is connected.  I keep hitting the touch pad with my wrist or thumb and cause the mouse to move to another part of the screen.  I am constantly fixing typos.  I've had this problem since I installed Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm not sure if it is because the biometrics is part of the touchpad, the way the device is built into the system, or the BIOS which does not let me disable it.
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I have a mid-2007 MacBook Pro, the one with the trackpad that had the physical button on along the bottom edge. The trackpad is not well and using it can cause it to stick and freak out OS X.  Is there a way to disable the trackpad that's a little more low-level than ? A BIOS setting perhaps? I'd like the trackpad to never be useable on the unit, whether an external mouse is connected to it or not.
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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 finger. Thanks for the help.
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On my Windows 7 system, and in all programs, when I scroll down with my mouse, it will scroll partway down then then scroll partway up.  It is totally erratic and is driving me crazy.  I do have a wireless keyboard/mouse, but I do not use the mouse, as it does not work: I have replaced it with a "wired" mouse.  I have tried adjusting the mouse settings (number of lines to scroll, and turned off "acceleration, as I think it was called).  Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I am trying to disable the touchscreen on my Asus S200E laptop.  In Ubuntu 16.04, I was able to do so with this:  Section "InputClass"     Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"     MatchIsTouchscreen "on"     MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"     Driver "libinput" EndSection   How can this be done on Ubuntu 18.04?
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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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This option, which was present in the "Mouse and Touchpad" settings panel in previous versions, is for some reason absent in 16.04 LTS. Does anyone know why this is, and/or how to fix it? Thanks.
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I have a new dell laptop and I want to create a keyboard shortcut to disable and enable the touchpad. How do I do this?
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I frequently plug a USB keyboard into my laptop to use instead of the laptop keyboard.  However, when I do this, the OS (Windows Vista) then accepts input from both the laptop keyboard and the USB keyboard.  I want to place the USB keyboard on top of the laptop keyboard and that might result in accidental keypresses if the laptop keyboard is still enabled.  So, is there any way to disable the laptop's built-in keyboard when a USB keyboard is plugged in?  My laptop is a Dell Inspiron.
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I'm interested in using my laptop trackpad as a drawing tablet, i.e. using absolute rather than relative coordinates, similar to  for OSX.  The same question was asked in  in May 2010, but the question was never answered. I'm wondering if this has been done on Linux. I'm also trying to figure out which search terms to use. I searched for 'linux laptop touchpad absolute mode', and came up with  which put the trackpad in absolute mode. but I'm really looking for a program which uses the absolute positions rather than a driver setting.
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Is there any setting to enable natural scrolling for my touchpad?  I can find the setting under XFCE settings for the mouse, but it doesn't work for the touchpad. Is there a way to enable it for the latter?
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I have a touchscreen laptop and I want to hide the pointer whenever I touch the screen. I am aware of solutions like  and  but I want the pointer to hide/show dynamically, hiding if I use the touchscreen and showing when I use a hardware mouse.  I thought about making  and applying one of the two above solutions to the touchscreen pointer, but neither of those solutions mention how to target a single pointer, and having multiple pointers makes things act weird, and that wouldn't hide the hardware mouse cursor.  I figure I can most reasonably do this doing something like , keeping track of the current input mechanism and executing xinput -cursor [transparent cursor] whenever the touchscreen is used and xinput -cursor [normal cursor] whenever a normal mouse is used.  I looked at xinput though and it looks like since both the hardware mouse and touchscreen are slaved to the same pointer, both of them register the same events in xev so I'm not really sure where I would get the information needed to differentiate a touch from a mouseclick. is it possible?
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Laptop : Asus x541u OS : windows 10   Hey guys,I've been struggling with this issue for a while ! My usb ports are not working I ran the usb troubleshoot but no results "usb controller is in a failed state or is not currently installed"   I tried other drives but nothing happened the weird thing is that when I plug a mouse or a keyboard it's working just fine which made me confused ....  In the device manager -> Universal Serial BUs controller I have 3  devices :   Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host controller-1.0 (Microsoft) USB Composite device USB Root Hub (3.0)   and whenever I plug in a drive nothing pops up in the device manager  Help please T.T
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How does one go about &quot;saving&quot; settings in Ubuntu? I change my buttons on my trackpad using xinput set-button-map 11 3 2 1 (I'm a lefty) and it works during that session. However, when I reboot my computer, I lose my setting change, and the mouse goes back to being right-handed. How can I get the setting to &quot;stick&quot; indefinitely? Thank you! My Machine is: Toshiba Satellite S50-B 64-bit Ubuntu version 16.04 LTS
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I have a Sony VAIO E14. The touchpad detects all clicks as Left clicks. In Windows 7, pressing on the right side of the touchpad is recognised as a right click.  How can I enable right clicking?  greg@greg-SVE14A1C5E:~$ xinput ⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)] ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)] ⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)] ...  greg@greg-SVE14A1C5E:~$ grep "TouchPad: buttons:" /var/log/Xorg.0.log [    23.112] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left double triple
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My laptop sleeps randomly sometimes while working on it. I observed it is due to pressure of my palm over the palm rest. I've googled about that and found about lid sensor are involved in sleep mechanism when we close lid and now i am sure it's due to the same sensor(faulty) that this problem is happening. My laptop is Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3567 I am unable to find about my Lid Sensor in book manual of the Laptop. Can anyone help me how to disable that switch entirely or where is the location of that switch. I've disabled the setting of sleep on closing lid. But that seem not to help me much. Problem occurance frequency has reduced but problem is still there. Now it takes less time like moments of second to turn back on from sleep unlike earlier. PS: I dont have virus on my pc so rule that possibility out.
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I updated ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. All worked fine for weeks until today. Touchpad on lenovo y580 stopped working just like that. I didn't install any new updates yesterday.   Xinput log:  Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)] ↳ PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                   id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]  Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus                                 id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Lenovo EasyCamera: Lenovo EasyC           id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ Ideapad extra buttons                     id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]