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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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