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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Can a command line program prevent its output being redirected?
I have become so used to do this:
someprogram >output.file
I do it whenever I want to save the output that a program generates to a file. I am also aware of the two variants of this IO ...
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Disabling middle click on bottom of a clickpad / touchpad
The Thinkpad T480s has a "clickpad": a touchpad where (parts of) the touchpad itself is pressable instead of having physical dedicated buttons.
Running X.org 7.7, there is a horizontal stripe at the ...
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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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Where is the input method configuration file?
My ibus input method was broken after an update. So I switched to fcitx.
Actually, there are a handful IMs (Input Methods) installed in my Fedora 19 system, e.g. fcitx, ibus, yong, etc.
However, I ...
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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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Configuring Kensington Slimblade in Linux
I just got a Kensigton Slimblade Trackball and I'm trying to configure it. I'm adapting it from my old Logitech Marble configuration.
I want the configuration to be:
Left-Bottom: Left click
Left-...
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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 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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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 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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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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How do I get xinputrc to work for login screen?
I have the following lines in /etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc to tame my mouse sensitivity:
xinput --set-prop 9 "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 4.5
xinput --set-prop 9 "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1
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Calibrating a touch-screen on dual monitors (one touch one not)
I am using Debian 9. I have a little PC with 2 in-built monitors that I intend to use as a point of sale. It has one monitor facing the customer (non-touch screen) and one facing the cashier (touch ...
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How to check whether an input device is disabled or not in xinput?
I can disable a keyboard or mouse using:
xinput disable <device>
But how could I know whether a device is previously disabled, in command line?
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How to remap keys only for a particular keyboard in Linux?
I have a numpad connected via USB and my goal is to be able to remap keys on that numpad so they can run custom commands or be mapped to other key combinations.
I have this in my .xbindkeysrc file:
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How to get rid of the delay way before Lenovo touch pad reacts?
On my Lenovo T460p, I have a "delay way" before touch pad movement or scrolling is registered. Note: This delay way is not to be confused with inactive areas of the touchpad as configurable ...
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How can I see the exact properties that are set with xset?
The two main utilities to configure and test X input devices are xinput and xset.
The main difference between the two (for what I understand) is that xinput allows a more fine-grained control over ...
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bash commands don't seem to run in .xinitrc
I am trying to run some bash commands in my .xinitrc script, but the window manager starts without these commands running properly.
I run Arch Linux with the window manager is called "awesome", and I ...
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syndaemon won't disable touchpad while typing
I am trying to use syndaemon to disable my touchpad while I type. I know that the GUI for this doesn't work for many people but all the posts I've seen online suggest that using syndaemon from the ...
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Parameters of Evdev Scrolling Distance: meaning?
I do not understand the two last parameters of the mouse scrolling distance I would like to increase:
xinput list-props 14
sudo xinput set-prop 14 'Evdev Scrolling Distance' 1, 1, 1
14 is the device ...
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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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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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setting trackpad tapping default value with xinput
It seems to be a common issue not to be able to set certain values with xinput.
So today I booted up my laptop and trackpad tapping didn't work.
I looked at the xinput table and noticed that the ...
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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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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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wireless mouse, very strange behavior
After the most recent apt full-upgrade that included a kernel update, I have now twice encountered a rather strange problem, and more importantly I cannot for the life of me figure out how and why the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / libwacom: Wacom Bamboo stylus buttons no longer work
Just updated my PC from the last LTS Ubuntu distro to 18.04LTS, and the stylus on my Wacom Wireless Bamboo tablet immediately lost all button function.
The system seems to be tracking the stylus ...
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How can I find and edit the input classes reported by "xinput list --long"
I found these configurations and "classes" using the xinput utility on Linux Mint. Hours of documentation-crawling and googling yielded no information about them. Can anyone tell me what they are, ...
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Increase mouse speed (xinput)
I don't know how to increase mouse speed.
Some weeks ago xset was working fine.
Now, I increase speed using command
xinput --set-prop 'USB OPTICAL MOUSE' 'libinput Accel Speed' 1
But it isn't ...
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Match graphic tablet active area to monitor subarea in a dual monitor setup
I have a graphic tablet with a pen recognized by xinput as UC-LOGIC Tablet WP8060U Pen.
The tablet active area has 4:3 proportions.
I have two monitors: 2560x1440 (16:9) on the left and 1440x900 (16:...
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Get X to ignore specific mouse?
I have a program which needs control of a mouse. I have a specific mouse attached for this, and I would like X to leave it alone. Unfortunately whatever mechanism in X autodetects and configures input ...
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How can I increase the acceleration of the mouse wheel via xinput?
I have a Microsoft wireless USB mouse whose scroll wheel seems to have absolutely no acceleration whatsoever on Linux. On Windows and OSX, the faster I scroll, the faster the page scrolls, and vice ...
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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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Touchpad buttons do not release after press (Debian Gnome and others)
I use a Sony Vaio Tap 11 (Intel based tablet) with Debian Gnome, but experience the same issue under Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora etc. .
This tablet has a radio keyboard with touchpad and two buttons ...
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Hide individual pointer cursor (because of flicker) in KDE in dual pointer setup with touchscreen
Under Kubuntu 17.04, I'm trying to obtain a dual pointer setup where one is attached to my mouse as usual and the other is attached to the touchscreen that otherwise works correctly while attached to ...
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TrackPoint problems with latest libinput, Xorg updates (need evdev props)
I'm running Arch Linux. On a recent update of Xorg, evdev was replaced by libinput (by default). When this happened, I lost the xinput properties I use for making my TrackPoint behave properly. ...
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manipulate multiple windows simultaneously
this is probably a long shot but I've been pondering it for a while.
I realize that the actual use-cases of this sort of interaction are quite sparse. The main uses I can think of would be
moving ...
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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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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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How to use xinput to configure multiple devices with a script?
How do you configure xinput to set multiple devices automatically using a script?
$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core ...
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Touchpad not detected
Some days ago I received a LDLC Iris FB2-I5-8-S2 notebook and installed Linux on it (Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 32bit, Kernel 3.11.0-12-generic).
Everything except the TouchPad works out of box (even the ...
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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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Touchpad not working after suspend Ubuntu 16.04
My mousepad is not working after suspend on a Lenovo E460. It used to work perfectly but after this it no longer even appears in xinput. I have tried to plug in a mouse and that works fine.
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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 map mice buttons via keyboard, Linux
I use Debian 9 (aka 'Stretch') x86_64.
$ uname -a:
Linux mypc 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Tried to map my extra button from my device, Logitech MU-007 :
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Xinput button mapping and middle button emulation
I have a mouse with 4 physical buttons (Kensington Slimblade Trackball), let's call them A B C D, plus 3 axes: mouse X, Y, and scroll wheel.
Buttons A and B work out of the box as primary (button 1) ...
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X11 multi-pointer, pointer conflicts
In an attempt to continue using my PC whilst automating a GUI application, I have created 2 pointers on my machine using xinput, one being controlled by me, the other by pyautogui.
on my system this ...
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