Questions tagged [button]
Tag indicates this is either mouse or GUI related problem (e.g. left button not working or power button grayed out).
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Change mouse button behavior
I have been playing around with xbindkeys and somehow managed to make the primary button copy and middle button paste. When I highlight text, it is added to my clipboard.
This behavior doesn't appeal ...
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How to disable the feature of automatic system shutdown in 60 seconds?
After pressing the physical power button on computer it's shown a 60 second countdown dialogue box:
"This system will be automatically shutdown in 60 seconds"
How can I disable this feature?
The ...
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How to configure extra buttons in Logitech Mouse
Can anyone tell me how to configure all the buttons on a Logitech MX 620 mouse under Ubuntu 12.04?
Specifically, I like to make one of them just the Ctrl key (for control clicking webpages) and ...
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Hibernate button on ubuntu 20.04
I'm wondering if it's possible to add a hibernate button to the power menu of ubuntu 20.04. Online I found only solutions which require the use of the terminal.
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Some part of laptop screen is not working after upgrading the Ubuntu 23.10
Top right corner of screen is not working.
Unable to minimize, close the browser[Google chrome, firefox]
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binding back/forward to mouse buttons
I have a basic logitech mouse with 5 buttons: left, right, wheel left, wheel, wheel right.
I used to use wheel left and right for going back and forward in my browser or navigator. Now this doesn't ...
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Executing a .py on the startup to trigger a GPIO button
I am quite a n00b, and this task is not easy as I thought at a first glance.
I am on a raspberryPi4 with Raspberry Pi OS Desktop with recommended software installed (really similar to every ubuntu, ...
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Close button of terminal showing this way
Suddenly my terminal started showing wrong symbols 🚫 🚫 instead of close, maximize and minimize buttons. Software Updater is not opening. The right corner is blank. The buttons are there, but they're ...
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Lubuntu 18.10 LXQt power button actions
My system shuts down when I push te power button instead of suspending like most laptops.
There are many complex forum solutions for that on the net, but I like to solve it with this command:
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How can I configure my mouse side buttons to control volume?Ubuntu 16.04
The mouse is a Bazalias X1 and I have determined the buttons are numbers 8 and 9.
This is for a PC that is mostly used for media, running Ubuntu 16.04 with the Gnome MPV player. I would like to ...
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Shutdown button configured as startup, i can't access ubuntu
I'm pretty new. I've been a bit stupid: after installing the shutdown button from a tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNPm0fa4Do), I have configured it as startup, and now every time I turn ...
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Lubuntu 20.04 hibernate button activation
I'm using Lubuntu 20.04 and I can hibernate my system using terminal with sudo systemctl hibernate command. But when I click the hibernate button from leave menu, I just get a warning error that say's ...
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Buttons on my bluetooth headset aren't working
I have noticed, that although my "Bluetooth Headset" works perfectly fine, buttons on it, like Previous, Next, Play etc do not.
Why is that?
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Mouse click not working on Ubuntu 20.04 dual boot
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a dual boot with Windows 10. My laptop is a Dell Latitude 7480. Basically, my touchpad click buttons stopped working suddenly while I was using my laptop. The cursor ...
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Binding an action to a combination of mouse buttons
I know that X-system limits binding an action to a combination of mouse buttons (e.g. right click + mouse wheel up/down which I used to bind to sound volume up/down in windows but I cannot do the same ...
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Avoid showing cancel button on dialog
I'm using Kubuntu 18.04 with:
$ zenity --version
3.28.1
I want to display a --list dialog with zenity, but I don't want to show the Cancel button (in fact I'm okay if there is no OK either).
It ...
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Go back button acts as Go up in Dolphin
When I search for a file or folder in Dolphin then click a file or folder and want to go back, clicking the < button, it does not go back to the search results. It goes up ( like this ^ button ...
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How to configure sh handler for physical poweroff button?
How to make sh script and run it when physical poweroff button is pressed?
How to remove standard handler with user confirmation for this button?
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How to disable the "user logged in" message that prevents the system from shutting down?
I have a home file server with ubuntu 20.04.
Experimenting with VLC in terminal and being not a pro user I had accidentally installed Gnome which immediately started doing things it was not asked for.
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Physical Mouse Buttons do not work on Lenovo Yoga X1, Ubuntu 18.04
Problem
The buttons above the touchpad that are supposed to be left-, middle-, and right-click do not work at all currently.
It used to work at some point in the past.
Just a few minutes after asking ...
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Cannot change click speed and single click becomes a double click
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, GNOME Version 3.36.8.
Since the latest two upgrades the mouse has started doing this: more than half the time a single click becomes a double click. This makes it very ...
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Place "Power Off" as last option in the system menu?
I have been using Ubuntu 21.10 for about slightly more than a month now and there is a design choice that irritates me.
The "Log Out" button is placed below the "Power Off" button ...
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How to map USB button to act as the "Enter" key?
I ordered USB foot pedal/button. Currently it outputs the letter "B" when pressed. How to make it act as the key "Enter"?
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Unable to right-click in Unity window manager
I cannot right-click in Unity window manager in a fresh install of Ubuntu 21.10.
I have a new Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 which includes a touchpad alone, with no buttons. In gnome display manager (chosen ...
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Left mouse button randomly stops working
I am struggling with my left mouse button. It stops working at random intervals -- sometimes after 5 minutes, other times everything is fine for 5 hours.
It's NOT a hardware issue. I have tested an ...
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Fresh UBUNTU 20.04.3 LTS installation WLAN in properties missing
I am new in the Ubuntu world.
I installed 20.04.3 on a new ASUS laptop.
It went fine, but I don't have the WLAN option in the properties (GUI)
Means: I can't connect to my WLAN.
I used the WIN KEY ...
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Minimize, Maximize and Close Button in title bar. How can we remove this and put back the window options?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, I ran in to a small trouble, and I do not know how to overcome this. I am attaching the pic for better comprehension.
The minimize, maximize and close shifted to title bar. And ...
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Middle mouse button scrolling?
In ubuntu 20.04 middle mouse button scrolling doesn't working? But in windows 10 it works fine.
I am using Bluetooth intex mouse.
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What's the button on the left corner of a XFCE4 window
I'm using xfce4 and my theme is orchis-dark. I was always wondering about a select button on the left corner of my window.
You can see the button in the following screenshots:
What does it do?
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Is it possible to use different color for a minimized window taskbar button? Any theme that does?
I use Fbpanel as my panel. It uses GTK2 for theming. I would like to know which windows are minimized by a quick glance at the taskbar.
Below, GIMP's icon background is green because GIMP has focus, ...
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Applications not showing properly after clicking 'show application'
I think the screen is not refreshing
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Touchpad buttons on a HP Elitebook with Ubuntu-20-04 are not working
I have installed Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 on my HP Elitebook 850 G7, and in Ubuntu I noticed something strange.
While, the touchpad in general works, the two extra buttons do not.
I found a lot of ...
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Change Shape Of Titlebar Buttons
Is there any way that I can change the shape of these buttons to be square? It is Ubuntu's last LTS version with Gnome, previously these buttons were square but now I can't change it back.
The buttons,...
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checkbox bug - any help?
After a fresh install, I installed some gtk3 themes and change the icon settings, resulting this checkbox bug.
Is there a way to solve this?
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xorg.conf ButtonMapping not working (maybe overridden?)
I have a bluetooth mouse I want to configure, and my 99-eleocmtrackball.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d looks like this:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev mouse"
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Panel application menu icon location in BUDGIE
Does anyone know the location of the panel menu icon in budgie?
I know you can change it using Budgie desktop settings but I just want to change it back to the original.
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How do you make a button that performs a specific command?
How do I create a button on my taskbar along with the time and stuff that performs a specific task? I wanted to be able to disable and enable my keyboard with the help of a keyboard shortcut, but I ...
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Enable and disable a VPN-connection with one Shortcut (nm-applet)?
Is this possible?
I want to have one Shortcut which works like a On/Off button for a VPN (similar to a wireless on/off Button on many laptops). To achieve this, I would probably need a script ...
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Why is the middle button mapped to pasting?
I'm in love with Ubuntu, but I really HATE this feature. I am a programmer and it happened a number of times that I introduced a bug because I inadvertently pasted some code which didn't belong there. ...
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Restore default KDE launch button
Previously Kubuntu had the default KDE button of gears with the letter K. Later Kubuntu default theme's button changed to the Kubuntu logotype. How can I change this application menu button back to ...
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Start laptop without power button
I own a really old laptop (about 9 years old). It runs well, except for occasional hitches.
Few months ago, the power button stopped working gradually. The power button that started laptop on the ...
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ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad not detecting physical buttons
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed in an Acer A315-51-54AP with ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad and with the synaptics driver. As the title says, the physical click buttons are not working while tapping does (...
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Mapping the extra mouse buttons to page up and page down
I am trying to map the extra mouse buttons to PgUp PgDn using xbindkeys. I found their button # using xev
ButtonRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0x191, subw 0x0, ...
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ubuntu 20.04 - mouse right button not working in gnome
I've just installed 20.04 on a brand new system plus a bunch of applications(gimp, blender, inkscape, cinelerra, emacs etc). From the start the right button menu has not been working, in fact the ...
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How do I remove "Activities" button from Ubuntu 20.04? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I don't like the button "Activities" at the top left of the screen. Is it possible to remove it completely? If not, can I remove the word, leaving the button's action there?...
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How to decrease button size?
I am using the Sierra theme. Everything is alright, but except the button size in eclipse.
See that image? all of the button's height is larger than the text box. It obviously doesn't look good, so I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS highlight color for dialog buttons is too little visible
In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS it's so difficult to see which button is the current selection in a dialog window, because it's too little visible the color highlight.
Using the mouse it's easy, but moving ...
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Unassign function from mouse button 8 and button 9 on ubuntu 19.10
I have mouse Logitech M590 with some extra buttons. By default buttons 8 and 9 works as "back" and "forward". I want to give them different functionality. A followed the last answer in this thread How ...
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xbindkeysrc copy/paste buttons is weird in LibreOffice after updating from Ubuntu 18 to 19
I upgraded from Ubuntu 18 to 19 and now Calc is pasting an image instead of the selected cells. With Writer instead, I need to copy twice in order to get what I wanted to copy in the first place. With ...
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Listening to Joypad Input in Bash Script
I'm looking to write a script to kill a game process with a button combo on a joypad. Is there a way I can listen for joypad button presses in a bash script?
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