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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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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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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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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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Disable Keyboard & Mouse Temporarily
I would like to know how one can disable the keyboard & mouse temporarily in OS X.
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Disable mouse (not touchpad!) in Xorg while idle
I am an avid keyboard user, but I still need the mouse every now and then. To minimize the hand travel, I have the mouse located below my keyboard. (On a side note, using the mouse this way feels ...
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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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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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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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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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Avoiding pasting with the mouse wheel
I'm tired of having to copy and paste text using the the wheel of my mouse; the amount of dexterity needed is legendary. Anybody know of any kind of frankenmouse which has four buttons (one that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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vim - but with scrolling, clickable text, and copy-paste
I like vim. I think touching mice is dirty. But sometimes when my hand is already on a mouse, it sure would be nice to be able to scroll the text or click a location in the text and have the cursor ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
