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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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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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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 can I run udev rules 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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“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] ...
