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Asked: 2022-01-14 17:54:18 +0800 CST

Touchpad starts requiring 2 fingers - way to fix?

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Is there a way to restore single finger function on touchpad without having to reboot?

After using touchpad for a while it often starts requiring 2 fingers on the touchpad to move the cursor and actions that would require 2 fingers then start requiring 3. Single finger is ignored entirely.

My touchpad driver appears to be: ELAN0674:00 04F3:3193 Touchpad

but executing the following does NOT correct the issue:

xinput disable "ELAN0674:00 04F3:3193 Touchpad" && xinput enable "ELAN0674:00 04F3:3193 Touchpad"

Rebooting always corrects the issue.

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1 Answers

  1. I'm having the same issue with Ubuntu 22.04 and a Dell Precision 5560. For me it seemed to happen after coming out of sleep. journalctl | grep i2c-hid also did not output anything for me.

    It happens occasionally. I have this laptop a couple of months already and have seen it about 6 times or so. Another interesting fact is that now that I'm typing this, the issue suddenly disappeared.

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