I am using a Dell Latitude E6520, with a pointstick. I've tried disabling the pointstick, and disabling tap-to-click on the pointstick within the Dell touchpad control panel (screenshot below), but every time my machine reboots, the pointstick and tap-to-click are re-enabled. How can I permanently disable the pointstick, or at the very least the tap-to-click?
The console window pictured above is less than useless. On my E6420 it says that it is disabled but the point stick still works regardless. The registry info supplied in various forums did not work for me because I could not find the referenced points in the registry.
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Welcome to the Community. You can disable the trackstick under you mouse properties. Click on start, control panel, mouse, wait till you get the Dell Touchpad tab on top, click on the Tochpad image, click on Device Select, and you can disable the trackstick.
I have been going out of my mind by accidentally touching the pointing stick and typing in the wrong place. You saved me at least 100 gray hairs! I kept trying to figure it out, but missed the "Device Select" which is where I needed to be. Your answer worked perfectly.
I have a user having problems with his E7440. He (rightly so) finds the pointstick to be amazingly annoying and wants it disabled. I managed to fight with the Dell Mouse software enough to disable the clitmouse without disabling the touchpad. (this was harder than it should be.)
The pointer has to be disabled with the Alps software. Normally you can download the the software from Dell but I had an older Dell laptop running Windows 7 for which Dell does not supply the software. I eventually found Alps software that works on this page -to-disable-the-pointing-stick-touchpad-on-a-dell-latitude-d620-and-probably-d630-d820-d830/ Opens a new window.
Some Dell Inspiron laptops are equipped with a track stick that some users erroneously refer to as a "TrackPoint," which is trademarked by IBM. The Dell track stick assists users by eliminating the need to move their hands from the keyboard to the mouse or touchpad, but sometimes it can get in the way. You may want to disable the track stick when you plan to use only a touchpad or external mouse.
In addition to fine answer of Gabriel Staples I'd like to mention that in some Dell laptop models xinput's output may not contain any sign of pointing stick. In my case (Latitude 5591 laptop) it was "DELL0819:00 044E:121F Mouse" with "id=13" and disabling it with xinput --disable 13 helped.
What can you do to find out the name of the pointing stick device in that case? Try grep "input device" /var/log/Xorg.0.log output, the desired device should have type: MOUSE. Corresponding id should be the one you are looking for.
More universal way of disabling pointing stick which should work both in X and in Wayland is to use udev rules. If you are using Wayland then xinput tool will be unavailable.First run cat /proc/bus/input/devices and scan its output for the devices with Handlers containing the word mouse. One of them will be the pointing stick. Notice its Name field, we will use it later (in my case it was "DELL0819:00 044E:121F Mouse", as I mentioned earlier). Then copy the long value of Sysfs field of this device and use it in the next command. In my case it was:
To start this by default uses the standard PS/2 mouse driver which is horribly slow to move across the screen. After much searching about I found an Alps driver however although this made the mouse quicker it left the pointing stick enabled. This then drove me crazy as if I slightly touch it by accident when typing quickly the pointer would move across the screen.
Dell latitude E6510. Pointing stick cursor is jumping. I disabled it using all possible Dell Pointing stick settings; it always jumps. I removed the rubber pointing stick button (!) cursor is always jumping. Of course Dell does not answer.
Joel, I tried to download the Hp program to disable the track stick cursor on my Dell Latitude D-820 laptop. I cannot get the full control panel to come up. What am I doing wrong??? This thing is drivung me crazy!!!
A pointing stick (or trackpoint, also referred to generically as a nub or nipple) is a small analog stick used as a pointing device typically mounted centrally in a computer keyboard. Like other pointing devices such as mice, touchpads or trackballs, operating system software translates manipulation of the device into movements of the pointer or cursor on the monitor. Unlike other pointing devices, it reacts to sustained force or strain rather than to gross movement, so it is called an "isometric"[1] pointing device. IBM introduced it commercially in 1992 on its laptops under the name "TrackPoint", patented in 1997.[2]
The pointing stick senses applied force by using two pairs of resistive strain gauges. A pointing stick can be used by pushing with the fingers in the general direction the user wants the cursor to move. The velocity of the pointer depends on the applied force so increasing pressure causes faster movement. The relation between pressure and cursor or pointer speed can be adjusted, just as mouse speed is adjusted.
On a QWERTY keyboard, the stick is typically embedded between the G, H and B keys, and the mouse buttons are placed just below the space bar. The mouse buttons can be operated right-handed or left-handed due to their placement below the keyboard along the centerline. This pointing device has also appeared next to screens on compact-sized laptops such as the Toshiba Libretto and Sony VAIO UX.
In the early 1990s, Zenith Data Systems shipped a number of laptop computers equipped with a device called "J-Mouse", which essentially used a special keyswitch under the J key to allow the J keycap to be used as a pointing stick.
In addition to appearing between the G, H and B keys on a QWERTY keyboard, these devices or similar can also appear on gaming devices as an alternative to a D-pad or analog stick. On certain Toshiba Libretto mini laptops, the pointing stick was located next to the display. IBM sold a mouse with a pointing stick in the location where a scroll wheel is common now.
Another challenge with pointing stick design is identification of the zero position (the position where no motion is desired). Because the amount of motion is small, the sensitivity of the sensors must be high, and they are subject to noise interference.
A typical solution, which assumes that pointing sticks frequently go out of calibration, is to interpret a variation below a certain threshold (over a given interval, perhaps one or several seconds) as being a neutral stick. However, the recalibration can also allow brief periods of 'drifting' (movement of the cursor while the user is not moving the pointing stick).[6]
In 1984, Ted Selker, a researcher at PARC, worked on a pointing stick based on a study[citation needed] showing that it takes a typist 0.75 seconds to shift from the keyboard to the mouse, and comparable time to shift back. Selker built a model of a device that would minimize this time. It was only three years later, working at IBM, that Selker refined his design, resulting in the TrackPoint product[7] for which IBM received US patents in 1996[8][9] and 2000.[10]
Pointing sticks were the dominant pointing device for laptops before the advent of the touchpad. During later years, they faced a decline in popularity as most laptop-producing brands switched to touchpads, although as of 2021, some manufacturers like Lenovo still produce laptops with pointing sticks.[11]
Some users feel that pointing sticks cause less wrist strain because a user does not need to avoid resting wrists on a touchpad, which are usually located just below the keyboard. One criticism is that because the pointing stick depends on the user's applying pressure, it can cause hand cramps (although this can be partly solved by setting the sensitivity higher and lifting the finger when the pointer is not being moved).Another criticism is that it stresses the index finger and may lead to repetitive strain injury.
Thanks! Just started using Ubuntu and was looking for a way to disable this. Because of the general disconnect between my fingers and my brain, bumping the stick while typing made for some pretty interesting prose! No hardware problem, strictly a user problem. 2ff7e9595c
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