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I have Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat installed. The problem is that the tap to click feature on my touchpad is too sensitive in ubuntu. It works fine with windows. I randomly end up clicking things while moving the mouse. Its very irritating. Any solutions ? I have a HP Probook 4410s laptop.
tapan
Posted 2011-01-06T15:13:07.697
Reputation: 918
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This works for me in Ubuntu 10.10
To see what trackpad you've got and what it's called, try:
xinput list
My device is called "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
There are 3 finger pressure settings: low, high & press. See what their current values are with something like:
xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" |grep -i finger
Change the values with something like:
xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Finger" 50 90 255
By increasing the second parameter, you require more finger pressure for the trackpad to respond. The first parameter controls release pressure, the third is to detect a button press (I think).
Rick
Posted 2011-01-06T15:13:07.697
Reputation: 426
4I have an HP Pavilion with a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad running XUbuntu 15.10. I put this in .profile so it runs each time the laptop boots:
xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Finger" 12, 35, 255 – Mike Slinn – 2016-02-08T06:28:38.510
Surprisingly, my device vanished after I executed the commands. Before I had two devices Synaptics, and Dell. Now only the Dell touchpad. Should I put up a separate question? – MycrofD – 2018-03-12T17:27:42.273
On Ubuntu 16.04 you need the spaces and the commas - you can see by matching the output from the list-props command which for me came out as Synaptics Finger (297): 25, 30, 0. If you try submitting 12,35,255 I got a BadMatch error, if you submit 12 35 255 nothing changes. – icc97 – 2018-09-18T06:42:59.920
2I needed to put commas in between the numerical values, as running it without commas resulted in a non-functioning trackpad. Also, my values were 12, 35, 255, in case someone tries it and 50, 90, 255 makes clicking not work at all. I have an ALPS GlidePoint. – None – 2012-03-29T13:03:41.803
This also worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04 – esse – 2012-09-26T03:47:28.190
workis in Ubuntu 13.04 too. – pragmatic_programmer – 2013-07-18T08:21:28.983
4Works on 13.10 too, 10, 50, 0 seems to be a good setting on macbook 4.1 – NoBugs – 2013-08-27T03:33:41.677
2on my macbook pro unibody the commannd was: $ sudo xinput set-prop "bcm5974" "Synaptics Finger" 10, 50, 0 – elviejo79 – 2013-09-14T18:31:29.160
1This works, but on restart, it goes back to old values. How do I fix the values so that it sticks? – Zeynel – 2013-10-20T12:37:25.677
1This works even on the unstable release of 14.04. :-) Thanks! – Ionică Bizău – 2014-03-17T17:19:27.343
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This may be silly but do you have gpointing-device-settings installed?
dpkg --get-selections | grep gpointing
Should show it if you do have it installed. If not try installing it with apt-get or aptitude.
Dan M.
Posted 2011-01-06T15:13:07.697
Reputation: 1 676
3i do have it installed. No options from there really helped. – tapan – 2011-01-07T08:27:01.617
1Would it be acceptable to turn it off? I assume the trackpad has real buttons nearby. – Cajunluke – 2011-01-06T15:16:51.920
1i mean i could probably get used to it being off. But i would prefer a fix rather than avoiding the problem. – tapan – 2011-01-06T15:30:58.500