Questions tagged [xinput]
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How can I set mouse sensitivity, not just mouse acceleration?
I can't find a single desktop environment that supports setting both mouse acceleration AND mouse sensitivity. I don't want any mouse acceleration, but I want to increase the speed of my mouse. That ...
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How to set xinput properties triggered by udev device connection?
I'm trying to set xinput properties for a USB input device whenever it is connected. I have seen solutions that require a script to run in the background and poll USB devices, but I would like to find ...
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Is it possible to tweak input from touchpad?
I use a MS keyboard on my Debian machine. The problem is that MS does not ship configuration software for us and touchpad's default scrolling directions are reversed (it uses natural scrolling).
I ...
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Determine xinput device manufacturer and model?
I'm trying to find the device manufacturer and model of my keyboard and touch pad so I can write an XOrg configuration file targeting it via:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad"
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Hiding the mouse cursor dynamically when using the touchscreen
I have a touchscreen laptop and I want to hide the pointer whenever I touch the screen. I am aware of solutions like unclutter and startx -nocursor but I want the pointer to hide/show dynamically, ...
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Permanently disable keyboard
I have a broken keyboard, some of the keys get stuck down. It can not be easily repaired, or removed.
I have used xinput to disable the built in keyboard of my laptop, because it sometimes sends a ...
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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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Can I Xmodmap only a specific device?
I'd like to reverse scroll direction, but only on my BCM5794 multitouch trackpad. Is this possible?
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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 scroll wheel, which although active, is far ...
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How can I permanently disable a xinput device?
I have a rogue xinput device due to some OS error that sends key press signals even tough nothing is pressed thereby causing screen flickering and the loss of mouse focus.
The device is:
xinput list ...
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How to avoid mouse cursor jumping while using xinput Coordinate Transformation Matrix when application releases mouse
I've got some high sensitivity mice that I need to lower the sensitivity on. The general solution to this seems to be to set the Coordinate Transformation Matrix to something acceptable. So I use the ...
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TrackPoint hard to control after Debian update
I'm on debian testing, and after rebooting (after an uptime of 3 weeks or so, that included a bunch of package updates, I believe including the kernel) the other day, the fine-adjustment - what a ...
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How to make xinput commands permanent
Using Linux Mint 18.1, I've remapped some mouse and keyboard keys using 'xinput' (command below). When I disconnect the mouse and reconnect it, the xinput command must be re-run manually.
I had read ...
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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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Can one disable tap-to-click in X server configuration without "InputClass" sections?
I want to configure my system so that tap-to-click is disabled on the touchpad. (It's running a rather old version of ALTLinux distro with xorg-server-1.4.2-alt10.M41.1.)
I'm interested in a solution ...
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Disable the external keyboard from a script
I have a udev rule for my external keyboard. I can catch events, and by running a script I can also reach udev env variables. Can I disable keyboard with udev? Or must I use a script to disable the ...
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xinput calibration and options
I'm on a lenovo thinkpad x220t running a fresh installation of fedora 22. Everything works fine, except when I connect the tablet to a projector, due to change of resolution the pen is not calibrated ...
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How to execute a command on window focus/unfocus?
I'd like to execute xinput disable bcm5974 when Gnome Terminal (and maybe some other application) gets focused, and xinput enable bcm5974 when it loses focus.
This is because libinput and my macbook'...
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Calibrating pen and touch via xinput
Introduction
This is a follow up from my previous question here.
When I connect my tablet to a projector, due to change of resolution the pen is not calibrated any more. I found this wiki post from ...
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xinput mouse device: separate x and y sensitivities
I've been trying out a trackball mouse and I find that it is entirely too sensitive, so I tune it down by setting its Device Accel Constant Deceleration to 1.5, I feel like this dials in the X axis ...
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Reverse two finger scroll direction with BCM5974?
I'm looking to reverse the scroll direction specifically on my Apple trackpad, and I'm not sure if there's an input option to do so:
Device 'bcm5974':
Device Enabled (144): 1
Coordinate ...
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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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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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How to set separate X and Y deceleration in xinput?
I use a cheap smaller brand drawing tablet, and it works nearly fine in Gnome (aside from the pressure), but it isn't usable in KDE. The reason for this is that KDE moves the cursor based on the ...
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Digimend tablet, Physical drawing area proportions too small
Related: FullHD lcd monitor read as 1024x768 CRT, wrong resolution problem
I had issues with my DVI cableo n my yiynova mvp22u digitizer, it's no longer transmitting EDID data, I did not happen to ...
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