Left click on a laptop Touchpad started working after a year

[CptWhoWent]

Hey guys,

From the title you probably get the idea about my question as I am so confused.

How come a left click of a laptom Touchpad started to work normally after having a problem with it for more than a year?
I really hope it is not a short therm thing, as I have no logical explanation for this.

Cheers,

 

[jedishrfu]

It could be a software update has enabled a feature that was previously disabled.

Alternatively, it could be a hardware issue maybe some dirt got under the touchpad corner and prevented a good contact.

My guess is the software update or something you changed in your configuration or even some new application that enabled it.

I had a similar issue with a trackpoint. I didn't know that tapping on it was equivalent to a mouse click and every so often as I worked with text in a word processor the text cursor would mysteriously. Later I noticed my fingers had brushed by it while typing and the click caused the cursor to move where the mouse pointer was. Once I figured that out, it was a simple matter to disable the feature.

It was a kind of Ghost in the Machine moment with random text cursor movements while typing that had a logical solution.