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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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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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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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Can I prevent “Disable touchpad while typing” from affecting mouse movements?
When I click my name in the upper right, then click "System Settings", then "Mouse and Touchpad", and then "Disable touchpad while typing" it affects my mouse movements. I have to wait two seconds ...
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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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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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Reverse two finger scroll direction with BCM5974?
I'm looking to reverse the scroll direction specifically on my Apple trackpad, and I'm not sure if there's an input option to do so:
Device 'bcm5974':
Device Enabled (144): 1
Coordinate ...
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Can mouse wheel scrolling work in a /usr/bin/screen session?
Is there any way to use the mouse wheel to scroll through the output of a screen session?
I can use the keypad scroll through previous output in screen after pressing ctrl+a [. Is it possible to do ...
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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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Configuring mouse for right+left button simulating middle click (for copy/paste)
I was using the mouse copy-paste extensively, until recently, when some OpenSuSe upgrade reconfigured this on all my machines. Now the scrollbuton is the one to paste (which I hate, since it's hard to ...
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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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Disable Keyboard & Mouse Temporarily
I would like to know how one can disable the keyboard & mouse temporarily in OS X.
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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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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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Disabling mouse-wheel window-shading in XFce?
If I place the mouse over the titlebar of a window, and roll the mouse-wheel, the window will become shaded. Is there any way to disable this feature?
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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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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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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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joystick as a mouse with Fedora
I would like to use a joystick as a mouse with Fedora 12. I tried js2mouse but didn't work. Is there another solution? How should I configure the system?
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Emulate mouse cut'n'paste behavior in a test script
I've got a shell script which outputs shell commands which are supposed to be copy-pasted with the mouse from one terminal window to another (I can test it in the same window though). The output ...
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Mouse clicks stop working after random time, using Awesome WM + Gnome
I'm using the Awesome Window Manager together with Gnome in Linux Mint. I experience the following problem several times a day:
Suddenly the mouse partially stops working, which means that I'm still ...
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mousekeys is too slow in gnome3 fedora
Today I had to use mousekeys feature and tried it but it was very slow and unsusable, can I incerase the speed of my cursor while using mousekeys?
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Getting KDE applications to recognize Forward/Back mouse buttons
I have a mouse with Forward/Back buttons which work correctly in Firefox, Chrome etc... i.e. they are recognized. They are also seen by xev which generates events, e.g.
ButtonRelease event, serial ...
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Mouse cursor 'frame rate' is slow, but only when logged into my main account
When I'm logged into my account on my laptop (A Thinkpad t420 running Linux Mint 12 with Gnome 3), the mouse has a noticeably lower frame rate than when I'm at the log in screen, or even in another ...
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Assigning mouse keys to keyboard
Is it possible to assign mouse keys (left click 1, middle click 2, right click 3, etc) to keyboard keys by modifying a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d? If so, how can I do that?
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Keyboard and mouse do not function in Debian
I powered on my laptop running Debian kernel 3.3.0. After the boot process starts the X server and KDE, my keyboard and mouse do not function. Keyboard input works when I use the Recovery Console, and ...
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Scrolling in Touchpad doesn't work on Acer Aspire S3
I'm on the latest Linux Mint release on an Acer Aspire S3. Unfortunately I can't scroll using my Touchpad. Google helped a little bit since I now know that there should be Touchpad options in System ...
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How do I set mouse double click speed in Lubuntu
I'm using Lubuntu 11.10. The only problem I have that the mouse double click speed is a bit high (it seems to me that it is around 100-200ms) and I would like it to set it to around 500ms. Is there a ...
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How to get alt+right mouse to resize windows again!
I'm frustrated that this was removed/altered in gnome-shell3. There are certain key bindings for resizing and moving windows like alt+right click etc, that I'd like back. I've tried to use the system ...
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Debian Mouse Preference?
I just loaded Debian onto a live usb today for the first time. I successfully killed my laptops annoying trackpad with the synclient command, but now I can't figure out how to get Debian to stop ...
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“TouchPad lost synchronization” errors in dmesg
My openSUSE 11.3 laptop is running slow. dmesg shows the following errors:
[ 733.162161] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 5 bytes away.
[ 774.230841] ...
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360 degree scrolling with Apple Magic Mouse in Linux?
I read that there is out of the box support for the Apple Magic Mouse in recent Linux kernels, but does that include full functionality such as multiple mouse buttons and multitouch??
For me the two ...
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Looking for “Camera Mouse” for Linux
I have come across a cool piece of software called Camera Mouse. It lets you control your mouse cursor with just a webcam. Is there software like that for Linux based operating systems? (I would ...
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Clicking on Gtk apps menu bar kills mouse
I'm using the following configuration:
Ubuntu 11.10 x64
Awesome Window Manager v3.4.10
Gnome 3.2
...and I got the following problem:
Every time I click on the empty space in a menubar or ...
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Thinkpad disable TrackPoint
I have a new thinkpad x220t running Arch Linux.
There seems to be a problem in the products hardware architecture as the TrackPoint is moving when you convert the thinkpad into tablet mode and put ...
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Keyboard triggering mouse events on Debian on Macbook
I installed Debian 6 on my Macbook in a dualboot configuration. Everything is working fine, except for the keyboard.
As I'm typing, I see the mouse arrow moving a bit and strange things happen, such ...
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Is there a way to control the mouse wheel resolution in Debian?
I am using Debian 6.0.4. The mouse wheel scrolls way to much for it to be any use. Is there any way to configure how much "scrolling" is done with with one mouse wheel turn?
Thanks!
Update:
My ...
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Default GNOME cursors package?
I installed a minimal version of Debian (wheezy), and then installed GNOME on top. However, it doesn't come with any special mouse cursors except for a non-descript black cursor.
I was wondering if ...
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How to lock one mouse/keyboard pair to each screen?
Using the ATI Catalyst Control Center (fglrx), I setup two desktops (the multidesktop option) via dual-head. Now I have two mice and keyboards (USB) attached which, using xinput can be put in two ...
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How can I make C-m1 emulate a right click?
On Mac OS X, you can right click by holding down control and clicking. I swapped the command and control keys with setxkbmap -option altwin:ctrl_win, but how do I make it right click by holding down ...
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Vim: mouse support lost after using netrw in xterm
Every time I access the filesystem using:
:tabe dirname (e.g.: :tabe .)
:vsp dirname
:sp dirname
in order to open some file while editing another one, I lose the mouse support inside the Vim ...
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How can I turn off “middle mouse button paste” functionality in all programs?
I don't like having the middle mouse button paste, because I often end up with uncompilable code in Eclipse. How can I turn this off (in all programs)? I'm running Fedora.
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Can I use a Logitech M505 wireless mouse with Fedora?
It's a nice mouse, but Fedora 15 doesn't recognize it. In /proc/bus/input/devices, I see a "PS/2 Generic Mouse". I've tried booting into Fedora with the USB device still plugged in, and it hangs.
I ...
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Why does my mouse stop working a short time into my session?
Running Easy Peasy 1.6 clean installation. Hardware - EEE PC 900-HA.
About 10 or so minutes into a new session after a reboot my mouse will stop working. It will still move the pointer, but it will ...
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How do you force Linux to detect a PS/2 device (e.g. mouse) on demand?
I plugged in a PS/2 mouse while inside my Gnome desktop, but Linux doesn't recognize it.
Linux will only recognize the PS/2 mouse if it is plugged in before booting the machine (like a normal ...
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Logitech MX-510: Some extra buttons not usable
I have a Logitech MX-510, that I've been using for about six years.
The Mouse has several extra buttons, that I'd like to use in Gnome, but I have problems with the button codes, that the mouse ...
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Is there a way to stop screensaver on keyboard only?
Let's say you have screensaver running. When you move your mouse or hit any key on keyboard screensaver will be stopped.
The problem is that with modern, laser based mice, slight vibration of ...
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Mouse click sound on fedora
I have a USB touch screen system with Fedora 14 installed. I couldn't get to play sound on any mouse click (on touch). Is there anyway to play a click sound, either by changing some configuration or ...
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Lost mouse pointer in XServer
Have tried many windows managers including TWM, xfce and Gnome, but my mouse pointer is gone. It is invisible, but it performs all the actions. If I do the right click the context menu opens and this ...
