My touchpad is too sensitive

I'm a complete noob to Ubuntu. I have an Asus x540la laptop. before I switched from windows, my touchpad worked just fine, and I was able to perform a right click by tapping on the touchpad with 2 fingers.

On Ubuntu, I don't have smart gesture so I can't do that. The sensitivity is completely off too. Now i frequently accidentally move the cursor while I type and have other problems like that. How do i fix the sensitivity and restore multitouch functionality?

edit: xinput output

⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ FTE1001:00 0B05:0101                      id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam                     id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys                          id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]

Solution 1:

I had this issue on many variants of linux. Currently I am on Elementary OS Loki. I had automated the fix of this problem by creating following shell script at /etc/X11/Xsession.d/56touchpadfix:

export `xinput list | grep -i touchpad | awk '{ print $6 }'`
xinput --set-prop "$id" "Synaptics Noise Cancellation" 20 20
xinput --set-prop "$id" "Synaptics Finger" 35 45 250
xinput --set-prop "$id" "Synaptics Scrolling Distance" 180 180
true

You need to tune values for your hardware. Mine work for Sony SVS series laptop.

Solution 2:

I'm having a similar problem. What should work for you is

xinput set-prop "FTE1001:00 0B05:0101" "Synaptics Noise Cancellation" 20 20
xinput set-prop "FTE1001:00 0B05:0101" "Synaptics Finger" 50 90 255

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My touchpad is too sensitive

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