Hot answers tagged mouse
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Assuming your GUI is X-based (as almost all UNIX GUIs are), use xinput.
First, list your devices:
$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Windows mouse id=6 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual ...
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First thing that we need to accomplish is turning off mouse, but only in X. For this we could use xinput.
We need to discover input devices that are connected to computer (to X server):
pbm@tauri ~ $ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave ...
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Mouse scrolling and elevators will work if you enable them in your .screenrc.
Screen FAQ
Q: My xterm scrollbar does not work with screen.
A: The problem is that xterm will not allow scrolling if the alternate text buffer is selected. The standard definitions of the termcap initialize capabilities ti and te switch to and from the alternate ...
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On most systems :set mouse=a will enable your mouse inside vim even on the console.
I personally prefer using the vim keybindings, but some variant on:
:vmap <C-c> "*y
:imap <C-v> <ESC>"*gPa
:nmap <C-v> "*gP
Will probably do what you want for ctrl-c and ctrl-v
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One more option is xinput. For instance, xinput test 8 would write
motion a[0]=496 a[1]=830
motion a[0]=496 a[1]=829
motion a[0]=496 a[1]=832
motion a[0]=496 a[1]=834
upon mouse movement, where "8" is my mouse device number. Use xinput --list to find out the number of your mouse among devices.
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xdotool exposes the pointer location (xdotool getmouselocation). None of xdotool, xwininfo or wmctrl appear to have a way to match a window by a screen position where it's visible.
The underlying X library call is XQueryPointer (corresponding to a QueryPointer message). Here's a simple Python wrapper script around this call (using ctypes). Error checking ...
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For linux (or at least the Debian family of distributions, e.g Ubuntu) there are the vim-gnome and vim-gtk packages.
For Mac there is MacVim, for Windows gvim. Both are linked from the vim download page.
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On modern-ish X.org installations, there is an XF86Ungrab keysym, which causes the server to release all active pointer or keyboard grabs. You can make the server break all grabs by generating the keysym either with a command or with the keyboard. With xdotool:
xdotool key XF86Ungrab
On some systems, the XF86Ungrab keysym is bound to the key combination ...
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xinput --set-int-prop is deprecated. You should use --set-prop instead. Also, xinput --enable [device] and xinput --disable [device] can be used to enable and disable devices respectively.
Here is a shell script I use to enable, disable, and toggle my laptop's touchpad:
# Enables, disables, or toggles device
device="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
if [[ $1 == ...
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Start the program xev in a terminal. Move the mouse inside the xev window; you'll see a lot of stuff scroll by. Press each button in turn. Then switch back to the terminal window and press Ctrl+C. xev shows a description of each input event, in particular ButtonPress and ButtonRelease for mouse clicks (you'll also see a number of MotionNotify for mouse ...
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That's just the way that the PS/2 port works. Unlike the USB, the PS/2 was not designed to be hot-plugged. If you need the hot-plugging capability, use a USB mouse. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that any solution will work consistently.
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On my ThinkPad X220T running GNOME 3 it's pretty easy to be typing along and accidentally bump the touchpad, causing some window other than the one you're typing into to be raised.
Ostensibly, the solution to this problem is to click your name in the upper right, then click "System Settings", then "Mouse and Touchpad", and then "Disable touchpad while ...
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I've never tried, but these instructions for Ubuntu look plausible, and mostly distribution-independent.
Add a section for the joystick in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (If you don't have one, generate it with Xorg -configure.) The critical line is the SendCoreEvents option, which makes the joystick events move the mouse pointer. If your distribution splits up X11 ...
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The xwininfo command gives this kind of output, but you do have to click on the window you want info on:
% xwininfo
xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.
xwininfo: Window id: 0xa0000d "flask"
...
So doing: xwininfo | grep 'Window id:' might give you something ...
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You do it with X resources. I have a file, .Xresources, that contains these xterm-related resources:
XTerm*VT100.cutNewLine: false
XTerm*VT100.cutToBeginningOfLine: false
XTerm*VT100.charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,42:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48
In my .xinitrc file, I have some line that merge in those resources:
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
...
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You cannot map two physical buttons to the same logical button. All you can do is swap the buttons (echo 'pointer 1 7 3 4 5 6 2' | xmodmap -). This is a low-level limitation of X11. As stated in the documentation of XSetPointerMapping:
However, no two elements can have the same nonzero value, or a BadValue error results.
The best you can do is to use a ...
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The answered question using xinput is the right one, but here is a quick one if all you are looking for is a simple screensaver type lock. I wrote this back in the '90s, and all it does is eat the X server's keyboard and mouse events, until you type the password. No feedback at all other than exiting when you type it correctly.
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You can set this property with xinput. Run xinput list to see the list of connected input devices. Note the exact name or the number of the device corresponding to your mouse (not the “Virtual core pointer”, but something like “Logitech USB-PS/2 Mouse M-BA47”). The name depends on your mouse model; I think the number is assigned dynamically, so you might ...
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If I understood your needs you have to bind one screen, keyboard and one mouse to one ServerLayout and the others to the second one.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section ...
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One interesting possibility I forgot is what Tyler Szabo's answer to my question Multiseat gaming? @gaming.SE suggests:
I would use VMWare. This might be possible with just VMWare player (you will need to be able to allocate a mouse to a single VM), or you might need to try VMWare workstation (for which I'm quite sure it works). The hardware/software you ...
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Having the middle button paste is a unix user interface standard, like having the left button select or activate, and the right button do something else (such as extending, toggling, firing up a menu, …). You'll find it bound to pasting in most unix applications.
If your problem is that your mouse is overly sensitive when you put your finger on the wheel, I ...
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better format: (sry 4 double answer)
go to settings> setting editor
click on xfwm4 in 'chanel side bar
click on general to display tree list and find one called 'mouesewheel_rollup'
click on to highlight and click edit icon at top of window
its a Bool so all you need to do is uncheck enable box.
save
from: ...
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I had thought someone told me or I heard somewhere that xorg by default supports keyboard driven mouse emulation out of the box. The movement, etc. is bound to the numpad keys. This article I dug up quick seems to indicate I have heard correctly. No direct experience, so this may be incorrect.
See ...
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mouse support is disabled by default, so something is turning it on. Likely the reason your set mouse= is failing is because it's running before whatever is turning it on. I'd look through the rest of your vimrc, and possibly the system wide vimrc (/etc/vim/vimrc is a standard location).
As a last resort, you can do this really ugly hack which will cause ...
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The feature you are talking about is called Auto-Scrolling. It lets you press & hold the middle mouse button and move your mouse to scroll smoothly. In Linux, the default behavior for this action (pressing middle mouse button) is generally used for pasting text.
However, there is a preference setting in Firefox and an extension available for ...
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The other answers were certainly on the right path, but the MDM/multiseat documentation is quite lacking and disperse. Some of the links provided here were outdated, referencing XFree86, Xorg's predecessor. Some digging shows that most MDM configurations use Xephyr.
Here is a HOWTO on building Multiseat Xephyr configuration:
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Look for multiseat and you will find the info you need. The linked Wikipedia article even describes where MDM fits in.
Im a Debian fan so check out Debian Wiki or the Ubuntu Community Docs. XORG has a good collection of multiseat info, including this detailed how-to.
Good Luck!
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I use a Logitech medium-of-the-line model. It's not too big but has lots off features. I also found click-with-mousewheel to be difficult, but I found a solution I'm happy with. Most current Logitech models define pushing the wheel to tilt slightly the left or right as a mouse click (button 7 and 8, in fact). This actually makes clicking straight down even ...
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You seem to be affected by a bug in the i915 driver on the 852GM chip family. There are patches available, but it seems that they may cause other bugs on some chips. A workaround that works for some people is to suspend and resume.
Freedesktop bug #29413: [855GM bisected] Mouse cursor invisible since kernel 2.6.35
Debian bug #619019: ...
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The xev output shows a KeyPress event for the Alt_L key with state 0x400. The state indicates which key modifiers and mouse buttons are down immediately before the event, e.g. state 0x1 would indicate that Shift was down, state 0x4 that Control was down, etc. state 0x400 indicates that Button3 (the right mouse button) is down.
What's happening is that your ...
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