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How can I fix jumpy touchpad response in xorg?
I have a newly-purchased ASUS 1015E-DS2 which came pre-loaded with Ubuntu, and the touchpad response is so bad to make the machine unusable without an external mouse. During small motions it randomly ...
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Touchpad left-click not working - Linux Mint on Dell Vostro 3640
This is a question on behalf of my friend, so it might take me a little while to run tests and stuff.
The problem is that periodically her touchpad won't left click, either by pressing the physical ...
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laptop's trackpad on a train: expected issues?
Is there a known issue with using a laptop's trackpad while on a moving train, i.e. is the EM field expected to interfere?
I ask because everytime I use my Apple Macbook Air's trackpad (I'm running ...
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Why does Touchegg's CPU usage increase over time?
I'm using Touchégg on Arch Linux and it functions splendidly. However, I'm noticing that as I use it, it gradually takes more and more CPU time.
There are a few things to note:
If I kill the process ...
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How to setup touchegg with gnome on debian
I am trying to setup touchegg on debian testing with gnome. I was able to compile and run it (without gui, daemon only). But unfortunately gestures doesn't work, though gnome two finger scroll works. ...
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updating Touchegg to latest version
i am trying to install Touchegg , i did follow this guide here,
however in the last step "sudo make install" iǘe get this error : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgeis
Tried to google around, but i have ...
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prevent touchpad click while typing in a VM
I use a Fedora 19 VM (VMware Workstation 9) on top of a Windows 7 laptop (Dell Latitude E6530) on a regular basis. In Windows and native Linux, I can configure the touchpad to not accept clicks while ...
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Editing new Lenovo touchpad zones in Linux
Just got a Lenovo T440p - love the laptop, hardware's great - and I was all excited to put Mint Linux on it. Install worked fine, zero show-stopper issues, but there's one persistent annoyance with it ...
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Linux detects Vaio touchpad as a ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
I tried this on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora. My problem is that in these distros, my Vaio VPCSA touchpad is detected as a normal mouse. It works as a simple mouse but multitouch gestures, double ...
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Elementary OS Luna 0.2 Synaptics Touchpad settings persistent
I have a problem making my touchpad settings persistent. I have installed Elementary OS Luna 0.2 few weeks ago, I'm quite new to linux but know my way around the computer.
By default my Two Finger ...
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Mousepad enable button
I gave windows up, and now installed Ubuntu and am going to move all my work here. I have my first problem now, which is that I have on my laptop (Toshiba Qosmio F750) a button above the touchpad ...
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Linux: Disable Laptop Touchpad Using In-Build Sensor
These days many laptop devices come with a touchpad that have sensor next to them.
By double clicking these sensor (or single clicking on some of them) the touch pad is disabled until the sensor is ...
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Right ElanTech touchpad button not working in Linux
Problem: Hardware right button of touchpad doesn't work in Linux, but is working fine in Win8.
Have tried several psmouse patches, xinput configs ets... nothing helps :(
OS: Debian Jessie 64bit
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Ignore area on touchpad
I recently purchased a Lenovo y500 and installed Debian wheezy 64-bit on it with no issues. The problem I'm having is with the touchpad. In Windows (dual boot) it ignores movements on the lower part ...
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xorg: disable touch sensitivity on clickpad button area on Elantech clickpad
Clickpads have mouse buttons integrated. I always lay one finger on the (left) button (to be ready to press ;). The problem with this is, that I prevent myself moving the cursor with my finger if I ...
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linux can send fn key and disable touchpad?
I am using a laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to send a Fn+F8 from a script in order to disable my touchpad.
When i type the command xdotool key fn, it prints
(symbol) No such key name 'fn'. ...
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Touchpad sensitivity scales to virtual screen dimensions
I am experimenting with attaching a second monitor to my Ubuntu Natty laptop, and I have noticed an annoying "feature" that makes any multi-monitor setup so unusable that I actually prefer my single-...
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How to set up Mac Os X like dragging behaviour on Linux
I would like to use Linux(Fedora) on a Aluminum MacBook Pro, but since the Touchpad on a MacBook Pro is only a giant button Apple does some custom tracking.
When there is one finger placed, and a ...
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Can I use a Magic Trackpad on Linux?
I'd like to be able to use my Magic Trackpad with Linux. While I haven't installed Linux yet to test it, the trackpad will connect to Windows on the machine (i.e. it has bluetooth). I'm going to be ...
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How to find out what touchpad I have under Linux?
I tried lspci, lsusb and lshw but none of those lists my touchpad device. Where to look now?
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Trackpad writing in Chinese on unix?
I've seen the trackpad tool to write chinese characters on macs, is there any such linux clone? Or are there any projects that anyone knows of which are trying to create that for linux?
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How to tell X.org to reload input device module? (Working around suspend-to-ram crash on Acer laptop)
When X.org boots up, Synaptics touchpad works well. But when I remove the module it falls back to /dev/input/mice and don't use normal driver even when touchpad is available again.
Xorg.0.log:
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How do I enable a stick pointing device in Ubuntu?
How do I enable/disable a stick pointing device in Ubuntu (9.10)? How can I configure clicking and scrolling with the stick pointer? (I can't click with the stick and scroll the page.)
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temporarily disable touchpad and keyboad, i.e. babyproofing my linux laptop
Following up with this other question, how can I temporarily disable the touchpad (both movements and buttons) as well as the keyboard in Linux Ubuntu Hardy? I mean, there is a menu for disabling the ...
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Ubuntu - No touchpad tab in my Mouse preferences
I have a laptop running Ubuntu Jaunty. This laptop has a touchpad. I want to turn off tap-to-click. The ubuntu documentation for touchpads, refers to a Touchpad tab on my System -> Prefereces -> Mouse ...
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