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    Is there a way to disable the movement sensor on a portion of the Y500 touchapd?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by devilz05, Mar 22, 2013.

  1. devilz05

    devilz05 Notebook Guru

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    Gentlemen,

    I think we can all agree that having a touchpad without independent buttons was a poor design, at least by Lenovo. My problems is that when I try to left click on anything, the touchpad senses movement and usually the arrow moves as I'm clicking or about to click. My question is this: Is there a way to disable the movement sensor on the bottom right and left corners of the trackpad to allow me the freedom of click as if they were traditional buttons? Thanks!
     
    devilz05, Mar 22, 2013
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  2. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    The short answer is no. I have the exact same problem with my clickpad and it's always causing me to miss whatever I tried to left-click on.

    On Synaptics touchpads with actual physical buttons you could enable/disable the buttons and touchpad individually, but on this thing it's all or nothing.
     
    octiceps, Mar 23, 2013
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