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How can I replace my keyboard and mouse udev rules with xorg.conf.d?
Since it is impossible to make udev rules that affect Xorg settings run on startup, I'd like to replace these with other alternatives. At the moment, I have two primary udev scripts that I've written. ...
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Mouse detected as keyboard
I have tried to use my mouse (perixx mx-2000) on Fedora 18 and Crunchbang 11, and for both of them, the mouse does not work.
The "funny" thing is that the mouse seems to be detected as a keyboard:
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Udev rules involving X11 don't run on startup
I have some udev rules written to run when I connect certain usb devices. For example, I change pointer velocity for certain mice, and change xmodmaps for particular keyboards.
The scripts work well ...
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How do I find the X window ID under the mouse pointer in bash?
From a bash script, is there some way to get the ID of the X window under the mouse pointer?
(edit) I need the process to be non-interactive.
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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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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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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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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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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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Disable trackpad click in Yellowdog linux
I just installed yellowdog linux 6.2 on an old PowerPC laptop.
By default, it's interpreting trackpad taps as clicks, which I want to disable.
I followed the directions here, and put ...
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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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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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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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Debian Squeeze: Left mouse click stops working
After starting a new session in my Debian Squeeze (6.0.4, always updated) running in a VM (VMWare Workstation) there comes the point in time where the left mouse click stops working, so that I cannot ...
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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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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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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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How to make X less sensitive when right clicking?
Whenever I right click in X, I almost always seem to trigger the first option in the menu unless I am thinking about what I am doing because I:
Mouse down; menu appears
Accidentally drag mouse 1-3 ...
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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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How can I configure Fedora to support scrolling with my ThinkPad TrackPoint?
On Ubuntu (and Windows), I'm able to scroll by using the trackpoint and the middle button.
How can I configure Fedora 16 to allow me to scroll with that? In Ubuntu, it just worked out of the box - I ...
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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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handling right click with single button mouse (tablet)
I'm currently trying to put together a config to facilitate accessing a Linux machine over VNC from a tablet. But I've got a problem with how to deal with right clicks (although I haven't actually ...
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Problem with mouse scroll under one user
I have three users set up on my system (Debian testing / x64 / Xfce 4.8). For two of them scrolling with the mousewheel works perfectly, but for one user it doesn't work properly in Xfce. The ...
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How to configure the terminal so that a mouse click will move the cursor to the current mouse position
What I'm looking for is how to configure the terminal so that it behaves like nano -m.
I know that xterm inside fvwm2 running on slackware does this but neither gnome or kde does it. I have tested ...
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How to disable the Forward/Back buttons on my mouse
My mouse has an unfortunate feature. On the left side, right where my thumb sits ever so gently when I'm using it, there are two buttons that are so sensitive a mere brush will make them click.
I'm ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Manipulating X key and pointer grabs on the command line
What command line tools exist to list and manage X server grabs? (That's grab as in key and pointer grabs, i.e. restricting the use of a particular key or mouse button to a particular application, or ...
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Command for forcing a pointer ungrab (captured mouse release)
Sometimes Firefox doesn't release the mouse after dragging, so I need to kill the application to force it to release its pointer grab.
Is there any command to force an application to ungrab the ...
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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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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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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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Disable Keyboard & Mouse input on unix (under X)
How can one programmatically "freeze" the Keyboard & Mouse temporarily, so that no one could mess with the system?
There are several possibilities where this is useful. For instance, I have a ...
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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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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 ...
