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Old 05-20-2014, 08:48 PM   #1
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Very sensitive touchpad on Lenovo ThinkPad T400 using Ubuntu 14.04

I'm having a problem on my refurb'd T400 w/a very sensitive touch pad. I even found an answer at Lenovo's community website. However, it's geared toward Windows. I've set up a dual-boot with Windows and Ubuntu 14.04 on this laptop. I'll probably be in Ubuntu most of the time. Anyone know any way of addressing the touchpad in Ubuntu?
 
Old 05-22-2014, 12:43 AM   #2
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Under your mouse\systems settings or try searching "touch pad" or synaptic in the package-manager for installing extended settings...
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Old 05-22-2014, 02:37 PM   #3
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not for ubuntu, but arch wiki entries have been very helpful even for users of other ditros:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics_Touchpad
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...s.conf_example
just keep in mind that you might have to look for files in slightly different paths, files might be named slightly differently...
 
Old 05-26-2014, 10:12 AM   #4
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Hi there
from the console type

synclient TouchpadOff=1

(set to 0 to re-enable).

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