touchpad

[Richard Vickery]

I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?

Best,
Richard

[Javier Perez]

What kind of touchpad?
On Nov 18, 2013 4:41 PM, "Richard Vickery" 
wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?
>
> Best,
> Richard
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[Doug]

On 11/17/2013 03:34 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?
>
> Best,
> Richard

Up to what? Seems like the laptops work right out of the box with their
touchpads, until you plug a mouse or other pointing device in. And they
work with Windows or Linux without any special driver. On my Dell it
does, anyway.

I've never seen a plug-in touchpad, if such a thing exists, but I would
think it would be like a mouse--plug it in and use it, no?
If you need a special driver the manufacturer should supply it, but
maybe only for Windows and Mac.

--doug

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:34:25PM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?

If you mean you are missing features from your touchpad, you can try
using synclient to query what is supported and then set them.

[Hiisi]

On 18 November 2013 00:34, Richard Vickery wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?
>
> Best,
> Richard

Off-topic: I thought you're out of this list, aren't you?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 12:34 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad?

Don't eat them in the first place...

I think you need to provide more details, though.  What sort of touchpad
is it, is it completely dormant, etc.

The one built into my laptop "just worked," and has done since at least
Fedora 9.  There could be hotkeys on your keyboard that disable the
touchpad, or something like plugging a mouse in disables it (not that
I've seen that behaviour on Linux).