Questions tagged [xinput]
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Trying to keybind spacebar to a mouse button on Ubuntu with no luck
I've tried xInput and AutoKey, but xInput only seems to allow me to bind mouse buttons to mouse buttons or keyboard buttons to keyboard buttons. For example, I managed to bind my middle mouse button ...
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Game uses all Joystick ID#'s - how to make it use only the virtual joystick?
I use a third-party controller (in my example it's Saitek P990). I was fine using it for quite some time because the games I played didn't detect my joystick at all and I was able to use it with ...
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How to use different pointers and keyboard for different monitors
I have a system running on top of Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop which I use along with an external monitor. I am trying to work on both simultaneously and I want to be using separate input methods for ...
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xinput settings are randomly lost
I start the following script at KDE startup to configure my Logitech TrackMan for left-handed use:
#!/bin/bash
lsusb | grep 'Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse' &>/dev/null || exit 0
xinput set-...
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Mouse volume control via designated scroll wheel
I have a mouse with a designated scroll wheel which on windows controls volume by default, no driver install needed.
So far every distribution (which includes Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora) I tried doesn't ...
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I cannot configure usb devices via xinput
I would like to have access to my input devices settings. In the previous versions of ubuntu I was used to do that via xinput.
However xinput provides the following input:
WARNING: running xinput ...
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No input driver specified, ignoring this device
I am trying to connect my virtual gamepad device to Linux. However, opening running the console app I get the message
No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
This device may have been added ...
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Shuffling "Alt"/"windows"/"Alt Gr" on just USB keyboard (and possibly not laptop keyboard)
Due to unfortunate misunderstanding in the label reading, I have ordered and received a Das Keyboard 4... for Mac. Which would have been nice if I didn't use a KDE Neon desktop (which is a KDE-...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Mouse button mapping
I'm difficulty programming button mappings for my anker A7851 mouse which has multiple non standard buttons, not all of which are recognized.
So far, I have tried using the standard gnome settings, ...
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Remap function keys of Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Keyboard under Linux
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I have a Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Keyboard, which is connected via Bluetooth. On my laptop a xUbuntu 16.04 is running.
The F1 to F12 keys of the Sculpt Mobile Keyboard work as function keys ...
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run script after xserver started
I have a script which I would love to run after xserver has started. This file is located at /home/karl/.scripts/startup/sensei-raw-startup.sh.
How to I invoke this file after xserver has started?
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Touchscreen right click emulation doesn't work
I have a touchscreen device for which I have enabled third button emulation in xinput:
Device 'ft5x_ts':
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Evdev Third Button Emulation (257): 1
Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (258): 750
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Touch pad does not want to reenable in Linux Mint
I’ve been having issues with this yesterday. I cannot do ANYTHING with my touch pad on Linux Mint specifically, I accidentally disabled it and now it does not re-enable using fn+f9. This issue does ...
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xserver not using hotplug keyboard and mouse
I'm using a Linux desktop. My own customized distro, using debian packages, but no systemd stuff.
The problem is if I re-plug the USB keyboard or mouse, the X will not respond to them anymore. unless ...
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Can the Synaptics Touchpad Noise-Cancellation be applied only when using multiple fingers but not when only one finger is used?
I'm using an Apple Magic Trackpad (first gen) with the Synaptics Trackpad-Driver (1.9.1) on Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.11.0-40-generic) running KDE 5.18.5 (using xinput-gui to configure the trackpad).
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