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The pointing device (generally referred to as the mouse). When referring to laptops, please specify if it is the trackpad and not an external mouse by using the trackpad tag. Only use for hardware issues.

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How to disable mouse interference with Alt+Tab?

I want to be able to use Alt+Tab or Alt+` to switch back to a previous window AND at the same time start moving the mouse to where I will be clicking, without it all switching to the wrong window just ...
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Problem with USB mouse in Ubuntu 16.04

Since I have Ubuntu 16.04 have not had any problems with the PS2 mouse, but a week ago I placed a new mouse USB. This mouse freezes randomly (Sometimes while I am using the PC and sometimes this ...
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How do I enable scrolling with a mouse in a TTY in Ubuntu?

When I use gpm with a mouse in a TTY (ctrl+alt+f1), it allows mouse movements with a blinking cursor and such but scrolling with my mouse wheel doesn't cause any visible changes. How do I enable ...
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Mouse movement between screens with different screen resolution

I'm looking for a way to resolve the scaling issues between different resolution monitors and moving the mouse between them. When moving the mouse to the edge of the screen, it hits an invisible void ...
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Disable mouse middle button click paste on KDE, keeping that button working

How to disable mouse middle button click paste (AKA PRIMARY selection buffer), but keep that button working? My system: Ubuntu 16.04 with KDE v5.8.5.
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How do I adjust the mousewheel scroll speed on wayland on ubuntu 17.10

I have a logitech M500 mouse (M-U0007) and am running the default wayland (I think?) gnome desktop on 17.10. The scrollwheel speed is quite slow and I'd like to boost it a little. I found a few posts ...
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Mouse not working when I install Ubuntu 22.04

I install Ubuntu 22.04 on HP Elitebook 8570w but the mouse not working. The mouse and keyboard are HID devices only, why do they can not work? Note: The mouse not work while I install Ubuntu, not ...
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Mouse clicks stop registering in some windows

Yesterday and today I have been struggling with a strange problem: in some windows, the mouse clicks are ignored: Symptoms: The pointer is fine, the keyboard is fine, but I can neither left- nor ...
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Magic Trackpad 2 is not recognized as synpatic touchpad

I have found a lot of posts on the Internet working with Apple Magic Trackpad on Ubuntu. I bought Apple Magic Trackpad 2 and seems like it is not recognized as a touchpad. I can do left click and ...
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Logitech G700 mouse scrollwheel is way too sensitive, how can I configure it?

I am trying to migrate my brother to use Ubuntu. However, his Logitech G700 mouse's scroll wheel is extremely sensitive. By sensitive, I mean that, due to the fact that it uses high-resolution ...
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Can I enable OS X-style mouse wheel scrolling (not natural scrolling)

This is the way that Mac OS scrolling with a boring old handheld mouse works (as opposed to fancy soap bar and multitouch mice): The more and the faster you scroll, the further the mouse scrolling ...
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Bluetooth mouse on Ubuntu 18.04

After updating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 my Bluetooth mouse MUST be reconnected everytime my computer locks or reboots. It always connects, but doesn't stay connected when I lock the computer or ...
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Wireless mouse lags on high CPU usage

I sure hope this is a novel problem as I have tried to find a solution to it every time I get really fed up with this, which has been quite a few times, but no luck so far. Trouble is that when my ...
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Mouse trails for GNOME Shell?

I'm trying to prepare my laptop (trusty, gnome-shell) for use in presentations. As such, I'll need to do something to make the mouse more visible. 1) There's a program for Windows that does that well....
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Chromium browser scrolling slow

I just switched from Win7 to Ubuntu (no dual boot) and one thing I kind of ''miss'' is that I can change the scrolling speed... but I like the scrollspeed in the system itself but not in chromium ...
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How do I rebind "Initiate Window Move" to mouse button 10?

I am trying to use button 10 on my mouse to drag windows around. I have installed CCSM and changed the initiate button in the plugin "Move Window" to "Button10" (with no modifier, though adding ...
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Assistive Technology for Hands Free Use

I'm looking for packages compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS that facilitate using the computer without hands. Examples include: eye gaze tracking mouse software dictation software capable of coding ...
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Disable mouse in application switcher

I am using the default application switcher in an out-of-the-box Ubuntu 19.04. My mouse has a hardware problem that makes it moves a tiny bit every two seconds or so, and it is integrated in my rare ...
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Mouse scrolling jumps up and down (very uneven and hard to control) in Ubuntu 15.10

I have Ubuntu 15.10. Page scrolling is very hard to control with this mouse. When attempting to scroll with the mouse wheel, the scrolling sometimes moves erratically and often jumps back in reverse. ...
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How can I include the mouse pointer using a command-line screenshot utility?

I'd like to do this without giving feedback to the user as well, because a program I'm making will use it many times. What didn't work: scrot (No mouse pointer) import -window root (No mouse pointer)...
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How to get the current mouse pointer shape?

I know that you can use xinput to track the mouse position and click events, but I was looking for the ability to know what is the current mouse pointer/cursor shape. For example, is it the normal ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 Mouse cursor stays in upper left corner

After crashing my Ubuntu 16.04 with installing nvidia drivers I installed Ubuntu 16.10 However my cursor is not moving anymore. It stays in the upper left corner. It is moving invisible (detected ...
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icon scaling seems to work partially on a dell 4k display. I'm using ubuntu 14.04

a newbie here. I'm using a dell 4k display on ubuntu 14.04(up-to-date so far). I have already followed the instructions on this link - Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen - it struck me ...
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Mouse is blinking/flickering at my built in monitor with an external monitor, please help

I am using a Thinkpad W530, and due to my works, I need to use an external monitor. I am using nouveau and nvidia-prime to switch between intel and nvidia adapter. After I connected and switched on ...
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Mouse button 4 and 5 go back/forth twice in Discord

In Discord, pressing mouse button 4 or 5 goes back/forth both on button press and release. It doesn't happen anywhere else. I've tried 2 mouses I had and several distros (and even ran a VM on Windows ...
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Changing Mouse Speed - No "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" Property

I am attempting to change the mouse speed for a Logitech M335 mouse on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and cannot find the "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" property described in Step 3 of this ...
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Bluetooth mouse constantly fails to reconnect after sleep, Ubuntu 20.10

Bluetooth Mouth work fine until sleep. After resuming from sleep however, the mouse will try to reconnect then, failing that, turns itself off. This issue arose only after updating to 20.10 (from 20....
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Ubuntu 20.04: Scroll doesn't work for wireless mouse after system wakes up from suspended state

I have a Dell Vostro laptop running Ubuntu 20.04. I also have a Microsoft Wireless Mobile mouse connected through a USB bluetooth receiver. The mouse works without any issue till I suspend the laptop ...
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Configure scrolling using Logitech Trackball on VMWare

Background A Windows 10 host is running VMWare Workstation Pro 15.1.0. The guest OS is running X11. The pointer hardware is a Logitech Marble Mouse having configuration information on the Ubuntu ...
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All USB devices randomly disconnecting in Ubuntu 19.04

I recently bought a new PC (i7-9800X, 3.8GHz, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM) and installed Ubuntu 19.04 a few days ago. After a random period of time of use, could be 30 minutes or several hours, or sometimes not ...
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Visually indicate mouse clicks in Gnome 3?

I know there is this facility in Ubuntu 18.04/Gnome 3: Linux Equivalent of Windows Ctrl to show Mouse Pointer Easy way to quickly locate the mouse pointer? Basically, when you hit left Ctrl, you can ...
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HP Omen with keys P1 through P6. How to get keys connected to them?

The keys are supposed to respond to mouse events. Under windows the keys report the same as the keys to their right (so P1 -> ESC ... P6 -> Control) These commands report nothing (used after a sudo -...
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Disable tablet mode entirely, how?

It only causes bugs and I never use it. Willing to uninstall the functionality entirely. Dell Inspiron 13 (i3-7100U/4GB/1TB) Product sku: QF9-01403
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Logitech MX Master 2S Configure Horizontal (Side) Scroll and Thumb Button Ubuntu 18.04

Any ideas on how to make the Logitech MX Master 2S mouse thumb button to show desktop and the horizontal scroll to be zoom in/out? Thanks a lot!!!
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How to make cursor go beyond touchpad edge?

I am looking for a solution for the cursor to continue going in a direction while I am at the edge of the touchpad. This "feature" is already existing in windows. For example, when I want to drag ...
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How do I disable Drag and Drop of highlighted Text globally?

How do I disable Drag and Drop of highlighted Text globally? I know it's the OS doing it and not the Browsers or Editors, that's why I ask here for a Solution. I'm using Kubuntu 18.04, but I didn't ...
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How to "snap-split" windows top and bottom?

One can share screenspace neatly in left and right portions by dragging the window until the cursor touches the left or right edge of the screen, and the window will automatically 'snap' to that half ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop mouse freezes after going back from suspend

Under Ubuntu 16.04 PC AMD64 my laptop's mouse pointer freezes after coming back from suspend. The mouse pointer won't respond to the mouse pad. However, I tried attaching a USB mouse and its fine. ...
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Scrolling Up/Down with a keyboard shortcut

I have a scroll wheel that doesn't work and don't really wanna buy a new mouse, on windows there was a way to make this happen, I was wondering if there is a way I can setup a keyboard shortcut to ...
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After upgrading to 16.04 keyboard and mouse lock up at random times

After upgrading to 16.04 (from 14.04) keyboard and mouse lock up at random times, and then the only thing that I can do is to manually power cycle the machine. My machine is an older ACER with dual ...
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USB mouse stops moving suddenly

Using ubuntu 14.04, suddenly my USB mouse stops working, even though it has power (the laser works). When I try to shutdown, it takes a lot of time and finally I have to force shutdown by a long ...
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How to make mouse pointer movement more smooth while remaining fast?

I hate moving the mouse too much so I always set its sensitivity to maximum to be able to move the pointer across the whole screen with a humble hand movement. However the way the pointer responds to ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Laptop: Mouse cursor not moving but mouse buttons work

As the title states the mouse cursor on my laptop isn't moving but the mouse buttons still work. I'm not sure what to do. I have tested the touchpad on Windows and it works fine. My laptop is a HP ...
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How can I reverse mouse scrolling across all applications?

I use two mice, but I don't like the scroll direction on the left-hand one so I used xinput to swap scroll-up and scroll-down specifically on that mouse (xinput set-button-map "Primax Kensington Eagle ...
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Natural Scrolling on Ubuntu Gnome isn't working

I have what is (as far as I can remember) a vanilla Ubuntu installation (v.14.10) using the Gnome Desktop (v.3.9.90), yet I can't seem to get reverse scrolling to work. There's no option for natural ...
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Touchpad 2 finger scroll ends with a right click, text marking lag

Some recent update made my two-finger scrolling unbearable. Every single time I scroll it ends with a right click. Another thing I've noticed is a sort of lag when I'm marking text. This is also ...
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Cursor positioning using mouse in bash possible?

In Vim I can actually position the cursor in insert-mode using the mouse. So I assume this should (technically) also be enable-able for the bash. Is it possible? This would be quite useful at times ...
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Mouse and Keyboard will not work Windows 7 Dual Boot

My mouse and keyboard work fine in Ubuntu, as well as grub. However, when I boot into Windows 7, I cannot get past the login screen because the mouse and keyboard do not work. The lack of light on my ...
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How can I setup my WiiMote as mouse?

I recently saw a video how a guy used his WiiMote as mouse for his computer. Since I have a media center PC and a Wii, it would be great to get rid of peripherals and just use the WiiMote as my mouse. ...
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xrandr: jail mouse

I am using xrandr via console to enable/disable secondary monitors. This work fine so far. Unfortunately if I move my mouse beyond one screen, it appears on the other one. How can I disable this ...
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