Touchpad improvements?

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knew a way to improve the touchpad on the x220. I've installed all the latest updates and sometimes clicking is realy difficult :/ really buggy

 

There's been some discussion regarding this issue, but unfortunately, there's not too much you can do to radically improve the trackpad feel (other than to use the TrackPoint, of course).

 

I have a new W520 and the touchpad is terribly insensitive.

Renee

 

While I still hate the texture and lack of indentation on my touchpad, it's quite sensitive (T420). The difference may be that I turned off all of the gestures etc. I noticed that occasionally some of them would cause a tiny bit of lag, and I never planned to use them anyway.

 

There's a free little program called TwoFingerScroll. It gives really fantastic two finger scroll, smooth and responsive, almost like Macbook. It also has very responsive two and three finger taps (works good as a right click), together with some other settings for acceleration and speed.

Downloads - two-finger-scroll - Two finger gestures for Synaptics TouchPads on Windows - Google Project Hosting

You just have to disable two finger scrolling in Lenovo's touchpad settings from Mouse, Control panel, and two finger tap, if you use that as well.

It solved all my problems with the touchpad. It looks like the problem is in software - Lenovo and Synaptics touchpad drivers are total crap.

 

its just the general clicking and movement thats the issue, not the scrolling but ya i guess thats just one of the flaws of the x220

 

Here's what I did for my X220:

1. If installed, uninstall UltraNav Driver (15.3.8 at time of writing).
2. Install Synaptics TouchPad Driver(15.2.20 at time of writing).
3. Uninstall Scrybe.
4. In Synaptics | Uncheck Multifinger Gestures.
5. In Synaptics | Uncheck Scrolling.
6. In Synaptics | Disable SmartSense.
7. Install TwoFingerScroll.
8. In TwoFingerScroll | Scrolling | Adjust speed / acceleration to your taste.
9. In TwoFingerScroll | Tapping | Set Two fingers = Right button.
10. In TwoFingerScroll | Tapping | Set Three fingers = Middle button.

Note:
TwoFingerScroll has a "Start with Windows" option so you don't have to fire it up after every boot. However, it didn't work in Command Prompt with Administrator rights. To get that to work, I used a scheduled task to start it as an Administrator.

Improvements:

• I find it can distinguish between 1/2/3 finger taps for left/right click/middle click.
• Scrolling is better because you can better adjust how far it travels.

Issues:

• Two finger scrolling doesn't always work in some Windows like Event Viewer. Not sure why.
• Horizontal scrolling doesn't work so well.
• Drag and drop doesn't work well using the touchpad, so end up using the physical buttons above the touchpad.

If anyone has other suggestions / settings that improve the touchpad, please chime in.

Hope that helps!

 

Another vote for TwoFingerScroll. Truly a fantastic bit of software.

 

TwoFingerScroll is excellent, but that still doesn't solve the OP's original problem of movement & clicking.

This will definitely make it more useable and livable, for sure, but the trackpad still sucks. I've been using the trackpoint nub more lately.