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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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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 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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(...
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Touch pad usage will randomly copy-paste text from the screen
Whenever I use the touch pad to scroll with two fingers, some lines of text in the current window are copy-pasted. This happens very rarely (maybe once a week).
I am certain that this is not caused ...
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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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How to disable back-forward action when swiping horizontally on trackpad in firefox on linux?
Since a couple of weeks my Firefox installation (Nightly, now on FF 100.0.2) on Linux (Guix, X11, Gnome 40.4) goes back or forward in history when I swipe horizontally on the touchpad (with two ...
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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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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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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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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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Enabling touchpad tapping after installing dwm on Arch Linux
I installed Arch Linux and dwm window manager. But the tapping of touchpad doesn't work.
I know how to enable the tapping; I find the id of my touchpad, using this command:
~ xinput --list
Virtual ...
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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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Firefox touchpad pinch to zoom not working but touch pinch to zoom works on Linux
I'm having a weird issue with Firefox on Arch Linux running on a Lenovo Thinkpad L13 Yoga. I installed Firefox, and noticed that gestures on the touchpad or the touch screen do not work. I am using ...
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Where can I investigate session-only spontaneous mouse failure?
On my Lenovo S340 Ideapad with Xubuntu 19.10, I'm having a strange issue with my touchpad, apparently a 'MSFT0001:02 04F3:304B Touchpad' using a Synaptics driver. For no reason that I can find, the ...
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Touchpad not working and not detected when I run 'xinput list', on Ubuntu 20.04
I was typing a text when my touchpad stopped working. After surfing on the web to try to fix the error, I ran
xinput list
and here is the output :
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [...
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How to use touchpad gestures to scroll back and forth in history on non-Mac OSX devices in Google Chrome?
I prefer the way how Mac OS X allows users to use touchpad gestures to scroll back and forth in the tab history of Google Chrome. Is it possible to use similar touchpad gestures on non-Mac OS X ...
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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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libinput can't detect the touchpad
libinput can't detect touchpad while I can use the touchpad in BIOS
sudo libinput list-devices | grep Device
Device: Power Button
Device: Asus Wireless Radio Control
Device: ...
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fedora 22 synaptics touchpad not working
I just received a new Dell Vostro notebook. The touchpad works fine when I boot into setup, or a Windows install DVD, but with Fedora 22 workstation (live and installed), the mouse pointer appears but ...
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Cursor moving too fast in QEMU when using touchpad
I am running Windows inside QEMU on a Linux host. QEMU is running X with libinput. When I use the touchpad to control the mouse inside the guest, the pointer moves very rapidly and stutters. This ...
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synaptics touchpad in linux can single tap twice to drag, but not double tap twice
I'm using Arch Linux with i3 window manager. I have tap-to-click and also tap-to-drag enabled in xinput, so currently if tap twice with one finger, it successfully drags. Additionally, tapping once ...
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Linux/KDE - How to stop trackpad cursor jumping when scrolling with one finger and clickin with thumb
I like to scroll with my index finger and click with my thumb in the lower half of the trackpad (rather than tapping, I like to actually click).
Quite often when I do this, the cursor will jump to ...
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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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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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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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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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Init.d / crontab does not execute code on system start Ubuntu 20.04 Unix
As Unix Ubuntu does not support a natural scrolling and tap touchpad click I created simple script for enabling those options. As I got tired of executing it every time I reboot the laptop I wanted to ...
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Disable mouse when keyboard key is pressed in linux
I've given up trying to get my touchpad registered correctly. It wants to be an imps/2 device, and I can't spend any more afternoons trying to convince it otherwise (in fairness, it does quite well as ...
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Xinput settings have no effect on my mouse and/or touchpad and are also not persistent over logoff/reboot
I'm a Linux learner, so go a little light with me please. I'm using Linux mint with XFCE4, not particularly heavily customized. I am using it on a laptop which uses an Elantech touch pad. Using the ...
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Disable touchpad on Linux Mint
My notebook's touchpad is not working properly and every 2 seconds or so it does a imperceptible movement that is only noticeable when I'm on fullscreen on any media player and it brings up the ...
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