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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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