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Virtual mouse driver, possible X11 problems
I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After I wrote coordinates echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets ...
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Selecting/highlighting Text Problem
I am using Backtrack 5. As it is based on Ubuntu 10.04 I decided to ask my question to here:
I'm having problems selecting text with my mouse. For example when I try to rename a folder, sometimes I ...
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Why do I have three different cursor themes at the same time?
I've installed LXappearance in order to change a mouse cursor theme.
After changing it, I seem to have three different mouse cursor themes active: for example, in Iceweasel I have the one I had ...
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Decreasing mouse sensitivity at kernel level
I have developed a custom-GUI Server, which runs on virtual console of Linux.For mouse-handling purpose, it reads the mouse device file
/dev/input/mice
and retrieves the event data and updates ...
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How to get extract/compress option on right clicking?
I am using Linux Mint 14 Nadia . Earlier whenever I right clicked any folder I got options like Extract it, Compress etc. But now I am not getting them . Probably I changed/deleted some of the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome 3 “freezes” randomly - not a normal freeze though
Since upgrading to 12.04, I've randomly experienced this strange phenomenon where my mouse mostly doesn't work and keyboard mostly does. I have not been able to identify a cause for this. Sometimes it ...
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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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ihome fastrack 6000 linux driver
How would I go about using this mouse in linux? ihome fast track 6000. I like using this mouse, but I can't find a linux driver for it. I have a windows driver that controls the programmable buttons ...
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Why doesn't this udev rule trigger upon removal of the device?
I have two mice, one which has an issue where the middle mouse button and button6 get triggered simultaneously. So I configured my ~/.Xmodmap to disable this button. At the same time, however, I ...
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Adjust mouse wheel sensitivity in Fedora / Gnome
Short Question
Is there a way to adjust the mouse wheel scroll sensitivity in Fedora 18?
Long Question
I'm running Fedora 18, with the standard Gnome desktop. I use a Logitech M705 mouse with the ...
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How to lower mouse acceleration if it is allready at lowest setting in gnome3 config
I want to lower mouse sensitivity in gnome3 desktop, but when I open appropriate settings panel I see that settings are at already lowest setting:
Is there any way to fix it?
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Logitech M325 mouse horizontal scrolling
Out of the box, this Logitech M325 mouse works great with one issue: cannot use the scroll wheel for horizontal scrolling. It acts as forward or back in the browsers or does nothing in other windows.
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Why is mouse freezing in FreeBSD 9.1 Gnome or Fluxbox?
I'm new to FreeBSD 9.1 and I wanted to install a desktop GUI environment. I first tried Gnome 2 since I am familiar with it. I appended the following lines to the /etc/rc.conf file:
hald_enable="YES"
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Linux-Mint: Caja browser mouse_back_button
I'm trying to get my mouse's back and forward-buttons to work with linux-mint's default filebrowser Caja. In other applications, the buttons work fine. Just in Caja, they don't work and I don't know ...
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Linux Mint 14.1 with Cinnamon - Mouse Sensitivity not Working
64-bit if that matters. My mouse sensitivity slider does nothing, but my acceleration slider works. I'd like acceleration off and sensitivity how I like it, but it refuses to work. I have tested the ...
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Prevent Wacom tablet from moving mouse pointer
I have a Wacom CTF-221 graphics tablet, and I use it with Linux Wacom drivers.
However when I draw it's annoying that the mouse pointer moves with the pen and clicks outside of the drawing window.
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Mouse scroll wheel issues
I'm been having issues with the scroll-wheel on my mouse for ages now. I've got a Silverstone Raven mouse, and the scrolling action is extremely jerky. If I scroll either up or down, at a natural ...
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Setting desktop options for every desktop environment
My current system is Fedora Core 18 on an Asus notebook and I've been trying MATE and Cinnamon DEs. On my older installation I moved from Gnome3 to KDE.
Since I may use/try different DEs, I'd like to ...
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Mouse in Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity 2D) stalls occasionally
Time to time my mouse cursor stalls, and it can be freed only by reloading the psmouse daemon:
$ sudo rmmod psmouse
$ sudo modprobe psmouse
This happens, when I'm using my laptop's trackpad, and ...
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Ubuntu 10.0.04 Microsoft mouse “extended functions” not recognized
Related to a question still answered:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/240176/mapping-microsoft-mobile-mouse-4000-back-thumb-button
I have a Microsoft-Explorer-Mini-Mouse (which happens to be a good ...
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VMware mouse occasionally held down (cannot “unclick”, left mouse stops working, grab ungrab)
I have Debian 6.0.6 on vmware player. I notice once in a while the mouse just selects everything - like starting from some point to wherever my mouse is currently at. I can't unselect or press any ...
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Adjust sensitivity of trackball in Linux Mint 13
I am using Logitech Trackball Marble and I have difficulty adjusting the sensitivity of it in Linux Mint 13.
Apparently the sensitivity and acceleration setting in Linux Mint only work for the mouse. ...
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Cyborg RAT mouse with xserver
I got a cyborg RAT3 mouse. This mouse got some problem to work on linux.
I'm under lubuntu 12.10. I have searched some solutions on google.
I have done this : I created /etc/X11/Xmodmap file, and I ...
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Problem reading mouse from /dev/input/events
I'm using Fedora 17 LXDE with kernel 3.6.10 and am trying to read raw mouse relative movements from /dev/input/mouseX and/or /dev/input/eventX.
I get data showing mouse clicks (mouse up, mouse down) ...
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Microsoft touch explorer mouse middle mouse button not working on Linux Mint 14 KDE [closed]
I am trying to get a Microsoft touch explorer mouse working on Linux Mint 14 KDE.
The middle mouse button is not registered at all.
I tried xev and pressing the middle mouse button does not trigger ...
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How to disable select-on-release right mouse button in Linux
We are having issues with mouse behavior in Linux.
In Windows:
In any application, to open a context menu and select an option:
right mouse button down + release
move the cursor to an option
left ...
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Back button to middle mouse button
I would like to map "Back" button (xev shows it as "button 7") of my mouse (A4Tech X-7) to act as a middle mouse button. Is there a way to do this? I'm lost in google, finding only how to map buttons ...
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What fast UI mechanisms for page scrolling exist for desktop Linux users?
On Windows, most programs with large, scrollable text containers (e.g. all browsers, most word processors and IDEs) let you press the middle mouse button and then move the mouse to scroll. This ...
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How do I change the drag and drop threshold in Linux? (I'm using Gnome 3)
I'm not sure if it's a gnome setting or something deeper into the Linux OS, but I'd like to change the drag and drop threshold.
It happens too often on my clickable touchpad that I try clicking and ...
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Kensington orbital scroll wheel two consecutive button press 5 when scrolling
Using the scrolling function on my kensington orbital scroll wheel mouse in xev I see that two ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events of button 5 are triggered during a very small movement, followed by ...
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Mouse problems in OpenSuse
I just installed the latest version of opensuse on virtualbox just to learn some stuff and I'm having some strange problems with my mouse. Sometimes while I'm just moving my mouse around not clicking ...
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Mouse Scroll Wheel Speed Far too sensitive
In my crunchbang installation with X11, openbox, my wireless usb mouse is listed at both /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mouse0. It's working fine apart from the scrollwheel, which although active, is far ...
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Weird mouse behaviour. Debian wheezy
When I move my mouse slowly over the desktop the pointer jumps often a few pixels (one or two) in the opposite direction of which I move my mouse. Horribly when trying to set the cursor around some ...
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mouse in gnome-terminal
how to set up mouse in terminal window? when i click on midnight commander captions i get raw data from mouse printed as characters in terminal and any running progs don't understand mouses clicks.
I ...
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Logitech cordless mouse problem
I recently purchased a new Toshiba laptop and a Logitech M510 cordless mouse. I am running Mint 13 on the laptop.
Initially (at least once) the mouse worked fine. Then it ceased to work. I've seached ...
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Mouse drifts when dragging in Linux Mint KDE on VMWare Fusion
I'm using VMware Fusion with Linux Mint KDE (I think v13). The mouse works fine except for when I'm dragging something (e.g. resize or move a window). When I do that the mouse moves. Sort of like I ...
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Keyboard/mouse do not work when connected to USB hub, but only on Fedora - works on other distros
For the record, the same problem happens in openSUSE, too, and the solution is the same. It is fixed in both Fedora 18 (as far as I could tell: I just booted a live CD) and openSUSE 12.3.
I installed ...
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XFCE hangs with hand cursor
I am using Xubuntu 12.04 in a remote environment. Off late, I am observing that sometimes the cursor turns into a hand and stops responding. I cannot do anything to fix it.
The only solution seems to ...
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Use Emulated Scrollwheel Instead of Real One X11
So I've got this Kensington trackball that ships with a pretty horrible scrollwheel/touchring doohicky, and only two physical buttons. I'd like to disable the touchscroll entirely, enable 3 button ...
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bash script to detect and record mouse movements?
I need to be able to record the mouse movements every so often (every .2 of a second for example) and have them in a coordinate representation instead of a diff.
I found the following script:
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Restart usb mouse driver?
Sometimes, after some event that I can't determine, my usb mouse gets stuttery - like the refresh rate drops down to about 5-10Hz. It still works fine other than that, but it's incredibly annoying, ...
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Change scroll lines when use mouse wheels?
Is there a way to control how many lines will scroll, when you use the mouse wheels? It seems to be 5 lines by default, anyway to change this value?
I didn't find it in xfce4-settings-manager
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How can I zoom/magnify Cinnamon desktop using the mouse wheel?
There is a wonderful feature of compiz that allows me to use a key+mouse wheel (I use win+wheel to zoom into the desktop. Is there a way to get the same effect in Cinnamon?
UPDATE: Following Mikko ...
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How to configure the double click behavior in an X terminal?
Under different Unix/Linux systems I've observed different double click behavior in X terminal applications (e.g. xterm).
Sometimes a double click selects everything left and right until the next ...
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Mouse sensitivity confusion
In my few years of using Linux from using Windows for so long, there have been many new concepts for me to grasp. One of the more obvious seeming mysteries to me is how the mouse is configured in ...
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Mouse skips in Mint
I've just installed Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon, 64big) and am enjoying it. However, my mouse (which has been reliable for years on Windows) is no longer accurate. It will skip around while I move it ...
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disabling mouse support in `vim` in a `gnome-terminal` environment
Edit: The problem of an enabled mouse in vim appears to be specific to gnome-terminal (version 3.4.1.1-1; I am using gnome 3 fallback mode). If I run xterm, mouse support in vim is disabled by ...
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Avoid very fast double clicks
I have a mouse with a strange problem. The left button sometimes fires a double click even if I click just one time.
I would like to know if there's a way to avoid fast double clicks, ignoring clicks ...
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apple-like momentum scrolling in linux?
is there a way to make the scrolling on a linux machine (running X11) more like apple's natural scrolling? With 'natural scrolling' I mean the fact that you can flick trough the pages, there is ...
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Wireless mouse freezes frequently for a second on laptop, when on battery
I have Samsung NP360E5A-A07PL laptop with ELAN Smart-Pad (ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad, according to gpointing-device-settings), and a Logitech M195 wireless mouse (with an USB receiver). On Linux ...
