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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/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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
