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Looking for a way to improve synaptic/touchpad palm detection

I find that my touchpad's palm detection is pretty awful. I have set it to the minimum sensitivity not ruining my touchpad use (PalmMinWidth=5, PalmMinZ=1), and I still get random bumps whenever I type on my keyboard. I'd rather use palm detection…
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0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. How can I upgrade that 1 package, or at least know which is?

I have tried many different solutions found around this and other websites, such as sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade sudo apt list --upgradeable sudo apt full-upgrade sudo apt dist-upgrade and no information nor update of the package is…
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Why is there no "mark for upgrade" in Synaptic Package Manager for upgradeable packages?

The help docs mention marking for upgrade. The context menu and menu bar do not have this option listed at all, and the only non-greyed-out options are marking for removal or complete removal. There are some 40 packages in "Installed…
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aptitude search output

Can someone please explain this situation to me? I do an aptitude search and I get the following output: i package ... p package:i386 ... When I start up synaptic I see package but not package:i386 Also can someone clarify what the p and I stand…
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How to enable touchpad scrolling and tapping in Debian Wheezy KDE?

I'm trying to turn on scrolling and tapping with my laptop's touch-pad (the 2 left and right buttons are ok). I'm on Debian 7.3 (Wheezy) KDE-desktop and I have a Synaptic touch-pad. My laptop is an old HP model of 2007 therefore it doesn't support…
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How to run graphical applications as root under wayland

Under the new Wayland display server, several applications requiring root permission fail to run. I actually have an answer (one way of working around the issue). I welcome any better solutions or criticisms. Many other answers to this issue…
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Why I was able to fix a broken package with aptitude but I could not with either apt-get or synaptic?

Yesterday I upgraded my Debian Testing and Audacious stopped to work. Troubleshooting I found that the problem was that it was updated to a recent version but the needed plugins were not. I tried to manually install the plugins from its website but…
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Touchpad not working properly after upgrade - Arch on Chromebook

I installed Arch Linux on an Asus C201 Chromebook using this guide (the debian and fedora guides for the notebook didn't work for me and resulted in a black screen). This worked well more or less out of the box until I upgraded the system using…
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dpkg, apt, synaptic. aptitude: can user customizations cause conflicts?

So, I ssh into a (very) remote Ubuntu 10.4 server to do some admin and web dev+design. And I was looking through the various package manager options. There's a lot. The big ones are dpkg, apt, apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic. I don’t remember…
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Synaptics touchpad LED support

How to enable support the LED in Synaptics touchpads? I'm using Debian Jessie and xserver-xorg-input-synaptics ver. 1.8.1-1. I found patches by Takashi Iwai from SUSE for LED support in Synaptics touchpads and Debian bug 609903 "enable LEDDoubleTap…
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How do I remove persistent config data from APT?

When I remove packages from my system with APT-based programs, they often leave behind some kind of residue (referred to as "residual config") that seems to serve no purpose other than annoying me. Cleaning these is normally quite trivial: just…
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Apt-get refuses to stop trying to install Acroreader

I'm using Mint 13 if that matters. And I'm new. Anyway, I tried installing Adobe Reader 9 using their installer from: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Unix It got stuck when on a line that said something about…
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Mousepad not working in Lenovo Thinkpad

I have had a strange problem here - the integrated synaptic mouse/the rubber mouse does not work in Linux. The integrated mouse/mousepad only works as long Windows has activated them firstly. I can do many reboots in Linux and they do keep…
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Synaptic Package Manager: Could not apply changes! Fix broken packages first.

Have been trying to fix it in various ways, but all these advices on the internet turned out useless for me. It was too strange to see when one instruction help other people, but don't solve my problem. When I mark the package in Synaptic Package…
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In synaptic, is there a way to always expand "Details" when installing a package?

While using synaptic and update-manager in Debian (I'm using unstable), I always like to see what it is doing while installing and always manually expand the "Show installing files" and "Details" tabs. Is there a way to make this a permanent…
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