« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: bad laptop design  (Read 1245 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline grifftechTopic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 369
  • Country: us
    • youtube channel
bad laptop design
« on: February 16, 2018, 04:25:51 pm »
The issue is that the trackpad does not work while any of the alpha-numeric keys are pressed. DELL LATITUDE 3340, win7 pro
Logged
 

Offline rrinker

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2046
  • Country: us
Re: bad laptop design
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2018, 05:13:08 pm »
 Do you mean, hold down a key and the trackpad no longer moves the pointer? My HP does the exact same thing. I'm pretty sure this is common across most systems. I can hold down a key and use my mouse and the cursor moves, though.

Logged
 

Offline AndyC_772

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 4309
  • Country: gb
  • Professional design engineer
    • Cawte Engineering | Reliable Electronics
Re: bad laptop design
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2018, 05:25:44 pm »
Sounds deliberate; many laptops have a setting which intentionally disables the track pad while the keyboard is in use, to avoid inadvertently moving the cursor and clicking on things while you're typing.

Have a look in the control panel to see if there's a Synaptics touch pad driver or similar. You can probably set it to work however you like.
Logged
 

Offline German_EE

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2399
  • Country: de
Re: bad laptop design
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2018, 06:45:34 pm »
This is intentional and I have it enabled on my Thinkpad as well. Imagine if you are typing away, pass your wrist over the trackpad and highlight some text, then hit another letter, you will lose the highlighted text.
Logged
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Warren Buffett
 

Offline theleakydiode

  • Regular Contributor
  • *
  • Posts: 120
  • Country: gb
  • I've got no idea what I'm doing.
Re: bad laptop design
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2018, 08:28:43 pm »
Look in touch pad settings for "disable keyboard whilst typing". Yours will likely have similar settings buried somewhere.
« Last Edit: February 16, 2018, 08:31:18 pm by theleakydiode »
Logged
 
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »

Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf

 


EEVblog Main Site EEVblog on Youtube EEVblog on Twitter EEVblog on Facebook EEVblog on Odysee