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Touchpad glide not working - JanetBiggar - 08-15-2017
My original question is below: This is now solved - I tried the Fn, F9 option and nothing changed. Then I tried the suggestion that perhaps the "scroll" feature worked off of the right hand side of the trackpad - Presto it worked. Thanks a bunch for the various replies
Question: Perhaps someone can help. I have loaded Linux lite on 2 older computers and one notebook. With one computer and the notebook the touchpad works great/normally. On the third computer (Toshiba Satellite Pro A-110 the glide function does not work (the left and right mouse click buttons work AND double tapping the touch pad works, however when I use my two fingers to scroll up and down on the touch pad nothing happens. This movement works on the other computer (Toshiba Satellite A-100 and the Acer notebook). I have looked at the mouse settings (couldn't see any area for touchpad alone) and all seems to be the same. Any idea what I can do to have it work or simply try adding an external mouse..?
Thanks in Advance.
Re: Touchpad glide not working - bitsnpcs - 08-15-2017
Hello JanetBiggar,
can you try the keys, Fn and F5, press both at same time ?
Then try the trackpad.
If fail, then to try the keys, Fn and F9, press both at same time ?
Source for Fn/F9 combo - http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/education/resource-centre/hints-and-tips/notebooks/function-keys/
Re: Touchpad glide not working - whateverthing - 08-15-2017
Hi Janet. I think how this function works depends on the hardware and drivers, not on the operating system. Two-finger controls are a more recent development. This touch pad may not be built to handle multi-touch input. (I don't know the Toshiba Satellite laptops.)
I have an older laptop -- it's built to use the right edge of the touch pad as a scroll bar. So with one finger, I drag up and down against the right side of the pad to scroll. You could see if your laptop responds to that.