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Touchpad Right-Click on Debian
I am running Linux Mint Debian Edition on my Chromebook laptop. ChromeOS has an amazing feature where if you hold ALT, then click, a right click will register. I did some quick searches online and I ...
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How to change the behaviour of touchscreen in Ubuntu?
I have a touchscreen connected to my Ubuntu 22.04 PC. When I move my finger across screen, the cursor moves with it, but the left mouse button isn't being pressed at the same time. That is, it's e.g. ...
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touchpad not working on lenovo ideapad flex 5 14ABR8 when using linux
when using kubuntu/latest debian/lubuntu/ a lenovo ideapad flex 5 14ABR8 the touchpad doesnt work. it is not listed under the devices for libinput. i have so far tried:
installing xserver-xorg-input-...
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Thinkpad touchpad keeps randomly switching scroll methods
The touchpad of my Thinkpad t440s keeps randomly switching between edge scrolling and two-finger scrolling under Arch Linux with KDE and X11. When I boot it up I never know which one it is going to be....
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Ubuntu 22.04 mouse speed and trackpad scroll speed are off
How do I change this to match how it feels on windows? Mostly looking at the trackpad scroll speed as it is ridiculous when browsing firefox.
Curious if there's any new updates on how to fix this as ...
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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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How to disable touchpad mouse movement in Linux Fedora
I'm using a Lenovo ThinkPad T440p as you can see link image below.. I have a problem with the touchpad, it caused the mouse to go crazy on its own. I want to disable certain functionality from the ...
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Elan touchpad not working correctly after logging into Xubuntu 20.04
I used lubuntu recently but decided to switch to xubuntu to try it out.
On lubuntu, my touchpad worked fine.
But on xubuntu, my touchpad works correctly only when I am on the login screen.
After login,...
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SigMa micro touchpad returning LEFT_META+S for three finger tap
I have a tablet/convertible with a keyboard integrating a touchpad. The way the latter works is peculiar and does not nicely accomodate for linux usage.
Specifically, even if everything seems OK at ...
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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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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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Disable touchpad in Linux Mint (or any similar distribution) permanently
My buggy touchpad in Linux Mint 20 keeps driving me crazy as it constantly turns of and on again after a few seconds though a mouse is connected. Maybe it is an issue with the mouse USB but as I hate ...
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Touchpad horizontal scrolling and Areas setting don't work in Gnome on Wayland
I'm accessing a CentOS 8 VM (VMware) via Nomachine NX from a MacBook Pro running macOS 10.15.7. Running Gnome 3.32.2 on Wayland.
Two fingered scrolling works for vertical scrolling, but not for ...
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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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ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad not detecting physical buttons in Ubuntu 20.04
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed in an Acer A315-51-54AP with ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad and with the synaptics driver. As the title says, the physical click buttons are not working while tapping does (...
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ArchLinux KDE sometimes mouseclick on the touchpad not working
I'm running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma as desktop environment. Sometimes it happens that I suddenly can't use the double tap gesture on the touch-pad to make a mouse click also the two finger gestures ...
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How to use an Apple magic trackpad as a drawing tablet on Linux
I try to use an "old" Apple magic trackpad (AMT) as a drawing tablet on my Linux laptop:
Dell XPS
ArchLinux
Xorg
Xfce 4
I configured Xorg to use evdev driver for the AMT because synaptics does not ...
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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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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 on CentOS 8
The title says it all. I just installed CentOS 8 on my laptop and the touchpad isn't working. Like many, I hate the touchpad but for times like when I'm on an airplane there often isn't room for a ...
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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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Linux Touchpad: Slowly scrolling down "chunky" in (Java?) apps that don't scroll continuously
I noticed this on my Xubuntu 18.04 Laptop, using the touchpad and the Synaptics driver:
When I scroll down slowly (using the two finger scroll gesture) in, say, LibreOffice Calc (which has rows of ...
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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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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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Cursor keeps moving on its own
My cursor keeps moving on its own (heading to the top right corner slowly), it has been happening for like 5 months now.
I have tried disconnecting my USB mouse, disabling my touchpad and nothing ...
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How to use touchpad in Mint 18.3 Sylvia
I'm using Mint 18.3 Sylvia in my Acer Aspire F 15 F5-573G-77ZP.
I have problem in using touchpad, this is when I enable touchpad in Mouse and Touchpad options, I can't move the cursor of touchpad. I ...
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synclient does not affect my touchpad
After I run
synclient MaxTapTime=0
synclient TapButton1=0
synclient TapButton2=0
synclient TapButton3=0
my touchpad still executes a click on tap.
Even setting something obvious like TouchpadOff=1 ...
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fedora 27 running on lenovo ideapad 700 no touchpad access
My wife has a fairly new Lenovo Ideapad 700 on which I have installed a pretty vanilla Fedora 27.
Everything was running fine until a few weeks ago when her touchpad stopped working.
Running ...
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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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Kali linux mouse and keyboard stopped working after apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
I'm running Kali on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, and I haven't had any problems with persistence until I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade yesterday and rebooted my computer only to find that ...
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Disable touchpad in Linux
I want to disable permanently my touchpad when my Debian-based Linux boots up. Every time it boots up, I disable it with xinput —disable #. # Being the ID of the touchpad in xinput command. I disable ...
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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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Trackpad setup for HiDPI screen
I've just gotten the new Dell XPS 13. I've managed to setup almost everything, except for the touchpad.
If I place the cursor to the left edge of the screen, and start moving my finger to the right, ...
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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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Can a Windows update brick hardware across operating systems?
Ok this is going to be strange.
I have a Dell XPS 13 (9350 -- late 2015). Recently I installed Windows Insider Update 16226. As I have a dual boot set-up with Ubuntu Linux 16.04, one of Windows' ...
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Thinkpad x250 synaptics clickpad omits position updates on slow movements. dynamic deadzone, cursor freezing, jumping?
The clickpad device or driver on my thinkpad x250 omits position updates on slow movements, leading to jumps, imprecise motion, temporally stuck cursor.
This is especially infuriating for precision ...
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Touchpad is now extremely laggy with both Fedora and Debian
The touchpad is now extremely laggy, the cursor doesn't move smoothly, with both Fedora and Debian
I have a Sony VAIO. The problem only appeared recently, and what's more I tested with a Debian ...
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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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Trackpad movement range less than screen res. and unexpected touch activity (Arch w/ Libinput)
The unexpected touch activity is:
Upon interaction the pointer moves to the equivalent place on the screen as if it were a touchscreen. This is exacerbated by the range between the touchpad and the ...
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Linux doesn't detect Fn + F6 (toggle touchpad) combination on Lenovo V580 laptop
Though there is "toggle touchpad" secondary function on F6 button of my laptop currently this shortcut doesn't work.
xbindkeys -mk command doesn't show any info when I press Fn + F6.
I couldn't find ...
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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 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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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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psmouse serio1: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes
Recently I have had issue with my DELL Vostro 3750 laptop, the touchpad has eratic behavior.
Looking at the dmesg output I can see:
[175874.428170] psmouse serio1: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/...
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Touchpad not detected in Kali Linux
Running a Dell 3147 11 inch 2 in 1 with Kali installed on the ssd, it doesn't detect the touchpad. I looked under xinput and it doesn't show up.
I've tried this: https://wiki.debian.org/...
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Touchpad feedback in linux?
How to execute a command on every touchpad tap? I am constantly losing clicks (taps) on my touchpad, and situation doesn't seem to improve with new updates. I want to add a click sound for each ...
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Mouse pad does not work on GNU/Linux for ASUS X552C laptop
I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on an ASUS X552C laptop, along with w****** 8.
The mouse pad does not work. I have not been able to identify it with lspci. Several searches have not ...
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My Samsung series 5 laptop's mouse is stuck on one spot and keeps clicking
I have a Samsung series 5 ultratouch laptop with Linux installed.
Today my mouse just got stuck at the bottom middle of the screen and kept clicking every second.
I tried rebooting the laptop, I ...
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Weird mouse issue with browsers Arch Linux
When I'm browsing my touchpad two finger scroll is "laggy".
If I plug a usb mouse, the wheel scroll does not work.
It happens with Goole Chrome (from AUR), Chromium and Firefox.
Everywhere else in ...
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Touchpad on linux way too slow
Recently my touchpad has gotten to be way too sow on Linux. I use Fedora with a Dell Inspiron 15R. It was working fine for months, but recently is unbearably slow regardless of my speed settings. I ...
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