Questions tagged [xinput]
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Arch linux - Wacom display on thinkpad does not read any input
I have an issue with my wacom display on my thinkpad x390. The linux does not react to any movement of stylus or buttons on pen. I have wacom drivers installed.
this is output of libwacom-list-local-...
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What are 'default' props in xinput/libinput for?
I wanted to adjust vertical (two-finger) scrolling speed via xinput because my DE's settings utility does not expose that setting. So, I ran xinput --list-props to fetch a list of available settings ...
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Gtk's XInput2 detection test doesn't work
Trying to compile Gtk, configure stops with the error message:
configure: error: *** XInput2 extension not found. Check 'config.log' for more details.
Unfortunately, config.log does not contain any ...
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Can I make my system ignore a particular gamepad input?
I'm using a Corsair keyboard/touchpad combo which also functions as a gamepad input (it has a small joystick). It's a bit annoying because it often takes priority, so I have to unplug the keyboard to ...
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Really slow mouse speed in CentOS9 Stream
I am a new Linux user and I have tried to increase my mouse speed as the sensitivity has changed recently and it is very slow to move.
I have looked online and tried to change the sensitivity using ...
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xinput custom.conf file only applies when terminal is opened
Backstory: I need to rotate my touch input at boot so that I can use my touch display.
I am successful in rotating the input with the following entered into the terminal:
xinput set-prop 'seeed-tp' '...
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Making Xinput commands permanent "For complete noobs"
As the title suggests, I need to rotate the touch input on a DSI display.
I am successful in rotating the input with this entered into the terminal.
xinput set-prop 'seeed-tp' 'Coordinate ...
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xserver not using hotplug keyboard and mouse
I'm using a Linux desktop. My own customized distro, using debian packages, but no systemd stuff.
The problem is if I re-plug the USB keyboard or mouse, the X will not respond to them anymore. unless ...
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Can't Move Mouse When Key Pressed
I'm running up-to-date arch on an Asus G15 (2021) and I'm using i3 as my WM.
I can't for the life of me, work out why the trackpad doesn't seem to work when I have a key pressed down.
Where would I ...
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Mouse sending spurious x11 event (scroll right button)
I have an annoying problem where my mouse seems to somewhat randomly emit a 'Scroll right' event (button press 7).
I am running Debian Buster on my main desktop at the moment. I have not made any ...
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Inputing accented letters in Qt applications on Cygwin
I am a native Portuguese speaker, and I am having problems when typing accented characters in any Qt application running on Cygwin.
Almost always, the result on the screen for any accented letter I ...
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X11 - How to invert axis on touchscreen matrix?
I have a tablet that I flashed Fedora Silverblue on, but the touchscreen has the Y-axis inverted when the device is on landscape, and X-Axis inverted portrait mode.
I've disabled wayland to use xinput ...
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Touchscreen device doesn't work after boot but does after reconnecting USB
I have A Sharp Touch Screen device. Sharp PN-HW431T 43"
Connected via USB.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04dd:9e90 Sharp Corp. Touch Device
The Touch works fine if you connect it after OS is Booted.
OS:...
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Xinput/libinput button remapping with Trackball scrolling
So I'm using my trackball and I have configured it with trackball scrolling. What I now want to do is to remap the original scroll wheel to be used for some different function. The Problem is that ...
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Cannot scroll while moving mouse in Ubuntu VirtualBox guest
Applications in Ubuntu, such as Chromium or the GNOME Terminal, are not responsive to mouse wheel scroll events when moving the mouse cursor at the same time. I am running Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS as guest ...
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xorg keyboard config not working (us altgr-intl no deadkeys)
I'm trying to get my keyboard to use the us layout with variation altr-intl and no deadkeys.
Somehow my xorg-keyboard-config does not take effect. I looked up the config here arch-wiki but there seems ...
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Thinkpad T460 - how do I disable the touchpad?
I recently got a Thinkpad T460 and am running Ubuntu 20.04 on it. I don't use a DE, just plain old i3.
I'm like to keep my hands on the keyboard. That's why I like the trackpoint. However, I keep ...
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Unable to change mouse sensitivity
System: Debian 11 Bullseye
DE: XFCE or KDE
There is only an acceleration slider in the mouse settings (acceleration only).
And no acceleration profile or mode flags in xinput. Acceleration flags i ...
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PXN-0082 controller - xinput does not see but lsusb does - how to connect
I have an arcade controller I bought so my dying dad can play old school games.
but it does not show up under xinput, where it does show up under lsusb
Bus 003 Device 021: ID 0079:187c DragonRise Inc. ...
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Is it possible to combine two pointer xinput devices into a single device?
I'm using VirtualBox and it comes with a "Mouse Integration" feature, which creates a 2nd pointer input called VirtualBox mouse integration aside from the existing pointer input.
$ xinput
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Generic ALPS mouse added cause touchpad issue
I am using Mint 20.2 and in the last weeks I started to have touchpad issue: it stop to work properly (right and left click) randomly.
After deeper investigation I found this: if I run xinpunt command ...
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Ubuntu -- Wireless mouse now showing in 'xinput list' but it's present in 'lsusb' and working correctly
I want to enable scrolling with my mouse click and I was following this link but I failed at start because when I'm running xinput list in terminal it's not showing my mouse there. However it is ...
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How to enable extra buttons on trackball?
On FreeBSD xev only recognizes clicks from the first 9 buttons from the Elecom Huge trackball. On Arch Linux clicks from all the 12 buttons are recognized.
As per recommendation from libinput ...
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Annoying multitouch behavior Elantech touchpad on Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon
Recently I installed Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon.
Touchpad multi finger behavior is strange and annoying. When I tap with two fingers exactly at the same time, it performs right click and if one of my ...
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Disable button on mouse (Logitech M720 Triathlon)
There's a button on my mouse that I'm unable to disable. It's right next to my thumb and I keep clicking it by accident. It triggers some kind of alt+tab function and it's very annoying!
Here is my ...
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Cursor moving erratically on its own (not a duplicated)
I've read this post that is very similar to mine, but the difference is that I have the touchpad disabled and my xinput show as if I have more than one mouse installed when I only have just one ...
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Trying to disable the touchpad at wakeup
I am using a Thinkpad L13 Yoga and had the problem that the trackpoint stopped working after wakeup. So I followed the following hint (which basically reloads the psmouse module at wakeup): https://...
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Toggling touchpad with `xinput --disable <device>` kills user session
[Host running Arch linux 5.11.12-arch1-1 with gdm on Xorg.]
For years I've disabled/enabled my touchpad on the fly, directly from keyboard or cli as long as I had an active terminal session. I did ...
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Enable ThinkPad Trackpad on Arch Linux
I'm using Arch Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad P14s. On a fresh install, the trackpad is disabled.
It's cumbersome to carry a mouse wherever I go, and the red knob in the middle of the keyboard is far from ...
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How to map a sequence of keys to <dead_greek>?
I have mapped Insert to Multi_key (also known as Compose) so I can input ä or µ. I've used xmodmap -e 'keycode 118 = Multi_key' in my wm init script.
Now, checking /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/...
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monitoring xinput in script
My laptop has a cracked touchscreen that the local Asus tech tells me can't be replaced, not even with a non-touch because they just don't make them anymore.
It is in all other respects a great laptop ...
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How to scroll by holding "middle-mouse" and moving pen on a tablet?
I am trying use a tablet as my primary pointing device instead of a mouse (to get comfortable with it). It works but scrolling has become very inconvenient. See, a mouse has a scroll wheel that I can ...
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Why does setxkbmap on a single device also change other devices?
I am running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad laptop with an external keyboard linked up. The laptop keyboard has a GB layout and the external has a US layout.
First, I output a list of the connected devices (I'...
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List only pointers with xinput
I'm trying to write a GUI tool to restrict a pointer to a specific monitor (e.g. a touchscreen pointer should map onto its own screen and not across the union of all monitors). The tool is in Python (...
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How to configure the Elecom Huge trackball to scroll with the ball?
One of the cool things about trackballs is that the ball can be used for 2D scrolling upon pressing a user-defined button. I have an Elecom Huge trackball and want to configure it with xinput (so that ...
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keep xinput settings after mouse wakeup
I found a way to increase the speed of my bluetooth mouse but I struggle to make it persistent. Following the wakeup of the mouse after some time being not in use the xinput settings reset to the &...
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Lenovo x1carbon 8th gen with debian 9 doesn't recognize touchpad
I'm struggling for more than one month, fighting to make the touchpad works on x1carbon 8th gen with Debian stretch. Yes stretch, it means the latest kernel I can work on is 4.19 (backports)
The ...
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Ubuntu ignoring mice
I have this issue in Ubuntu 20.04 (running under KDE desktop).
Whenever I plug a mouse to my computer, it does detect it, it appears on my xinput list, but it never works. OS keeps ignoring it. My ...
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Unable to send keypress to Xvfb display using XTestFakeKeyEvent in C
Using this short snipped of code I am able to capture events from the keyboard (/dev/input/event1) and print them properly. However, sending them to the Xvfb display using XTestFakeKeyEvent does not ...
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xinput: Disable mapping touchscreen on external monitors
I am using Arch linux with i3wm on my Lenovo x390 YOGA. I also have two external monitors. I connect them throw my docking station and configure with Arandr. Screens woks fine.
But every time I ...
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How to configure Xorg to handle a touchscreen as mouse
We have a system running Linux on an industrial PC. It is based on Yocto Poky 2.5. Kernel is 4.15.30.
Recently the manufacturer changed the touchscreen controller (USB based). The new one (egalax) ...
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Configure X to use a touch surface physically larger than the display?
I'm building a smart mirror (monitor behind a two-way mirror). I have a 27" infrared touch frame, which I want to use with a 22" monitor. One reason for the mismatched sizes is I am placing ...
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Udev not running xinput command inside script
I'm trying to make it so that when I connect an external mouse I can automatically remap the buttons. I can remap buttons manually with xinput set-button-map $mouse_id $button_map
However, I'm having ...
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Persisting touchpad speed on XOrg
I would like to know how to properly persist the speed of my touchpad. Every time I reboot my OS, I have to manually run:
xinput set-prop 12 libinput Accel Speed 1.0
I found out that I can persist ...
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How to persist modifications to xinput
Every time I reboot my Linux, I have to set the speed of my trackpad to 1.0 using the following command:
xinput set-prop 12 libinput Accel Speed 1.0
Is there a way to persist this change?
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Touchpad vertical scrolling not working
I am using ubuntu 18.04 and libinput for drivers. Scrolling is not working for my system. I have tried changing natural scrolling and two finger scroll option with all the combination, still it does ...
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Touchscreen not showing on Xinput
Disclaimer: I am a relative novice and am hoping I just don't know how to interpret what I am seeing onto my device.
Problem and context: I got a Windows surface PRO and it was indefensibly slow, but ...
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Why are some parts of a udev rule triggered script not working? (use xinput to set mouse acceleration when plugged in)
I have a udev rule
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c084", RUN+="/some/script.sh"
which successfully ...
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Print device ID from xinput output in Linux matching a string
I am trying to write a script to automate the disabling/enabling my touchpad with bash script in i3wm but for that, I want to fetch the touchpad ID which is reported by the output of xinput. The idea ...
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Integrated touchpad of Logitech K400+ not working
I am using Ubuntu 19.10 and have paired K400+ keyboard with the help of Solaar (ver.1.0.1). I am unable to use the trackpad that comes with the keyboard.
xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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