After upgrading my system from 14.04 to 14.10 I have a problem with my touchpad: cursor moves.. hm.. from time to time. I mean when I try to move it in 90% cases it doesn't happen. But, if I click the touchpad and move it simultaneously - it moves. Where should I look to solve this issue? Laptop: Lenovo E440
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I'm having the same trouble with my Lenovo Thinkpad E540. – Tommy Trussell Feb 13 '15 at 19:48
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UPDATE: The usual "trackpad doesn't work" fixes and workarounds are not effective. (tinkering with the psmouse module, playing with the options in the gpointing-device-settings application, turning on and off syndaemon with various options.) There may be a synclient setting or two that helps but I haven't found it yet. – Tommy Trussell Feb 13 '15 at 19:55
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By the way, several Ubuntu updates ago the issue disappeared. Not sure which of the packages is responsible for it. – OhmSpectator Feb 16 '15 at 08:13
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Found a fix here: Synaptic touchpad on laptop not working
In short:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
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I have the same problem. And I found a solution.
synclient FingerLow=0
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Could you please clarify your answer? Where does one need to enter your text to get the desired result? Maybe also add **why** this will help in this situation. Please click [edit](http://askubuntu.com/posts/548808/edit) below your answer to add the information. – MadMike Jan 27 '15 at 15:49
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@fox0001 I'll mention that synclient is the command-line utility for querying and setting Synaptics driver options. The GNOME graphical equivalent is gpointing-device-settings (which is usually not installed by default in Ubuntu). The [man page for synclient](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/synclient.1.html) describes how to query the device to determine which options are available to set. – Tommy Trussell Feb 13 '15 at 20:04
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