Questions tagged [mouse]
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 can I adjust the mouse scroll speed?
This question has been asked many times with no answer. I've used my basic Google skills and haven't come across a fix. This is system wide. My mouse simply scrolls too fast.
I'm new to ubuntu and ...
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How do I set focus follows mouse?
Is there a way to set up "focus follows mouse" behavior in Unity?
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Is there a way to "restart" the touchpad driver?
I use Ubuntu 14.04 on a laptop, usually with an external usb mouse and keyboard and screen connected. Sometimes, however, I unplug all of them and move the laptop and keep using it with the builtin ...
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Increase mouse wheel scroll speed
As the title says, I want to increase the number of rows that are passed when I use the mouse wheel for scrolling. I know that there exists ways to do that for Firefox and Chromium, although I want ...
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Disable "Mouse battery low" spam notification
Countless times over the past few weeks I have been notified about the low battery in my wireless mouse. Every time it wakes up from sleeping mode and reconnects over Bluetooth I get a notification. I ...
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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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How to change mouse speed/sensitivity?
I am on an Asus Zenbook UX32VD in Ubuntu 12.10. Both in 12.04 and 12.10 I haven't been able to change the mouse speed (i.e. the "sensitivity" in the mouse/touchpad dialog). I can change the slider, ...
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Firefox Middle Mouse Button Scroll
How can I get the middle mouse button to behave correctly in Ubuntu? Clicking the middle button does not show the arrow which allows me to scroll the page by moving the mouse.
Information:
Firefox 3....
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How do I prevent mouse movement from waking up a suspended computer?
It's really annoying as I have to unplug the mouse after a suspend to ensure that an occasional bump doesn't wake up the system. I haven't found anything in system settings which could disable this ...
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Can Mouse Wheel Scrolling be enabled in Byobu
I've seen elsewhere that scrolling via the mouse wheel (and other mousy events) can be enabled for tmux.. can this feature also be enabled in byobu (over tmux) and how?
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How to change my mouse wheel scroll rate?
I'm using Chrome, and the scroll rate is like 3 lines, and it's painfully slow. My finger gets tired really quickly on long pages. System → Preferences → Mouse lacks any scroll wheel configuration ...
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How do I disable the touchscreen drivers?
I have a touchscreen, but the drivers are not working properly and interfere with my mouse.
Is it possible to disable my touchscreen , so that I can work again properly?
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How can I make my mouse auto-click every 5 seconds?
I want to click on something for hours. How can I make a script or use an application so the mouse will auto-click every 5 seconds or less?
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Increasing scroll speed
I've recently switched to Ubuntu, and the one thing that has been bothering me is the scroll speed, which I can't seem to change. In windows I used to have it set around 7 lines, but it seem to be ...
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Decrease mouse sensitivity below the standard limit
I've got a USB mouse attached to my Ubuntu notebook. This mouse is (unfortunately) really sensitive, and so it sometimes gets hard to hit small icons with the mouse pointer. This is really a hardware ...
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What is the best way to configure a Thinkpad's TrackPoint?
The previously useful ThinkWiki pages appear quite outdated. I am trying to permanently change my TrackPoint sensitivity and speed settings and enable middle mouse button scrolling. I have tried ...
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mouse sometimes doubleclicks when i click once
I have a problem which is becoming a nightmare, to the extent that I am thinking that it might be easier to just scrap Ubuntu completely and try something else. I have an HP PC running Ubuntu 12.04. ...
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How to hide the mouse cursor
I'm building a kiosk using Ubuntu Precise on a touch screen. Now I'm looking for the appropriate way to make the mouse cursor disappear. As people know where they are pointing, displaying an arrow ...
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Mouse cursor invisible after 15.04 update
My mouse pointer became invisible after some updates after I upgraded to 15.04 from 14.10.
In all standard settings the mouse pointer is activated (system settings, dconf...)
I also tried different ...
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Mouse cursor turned into a "thick plus", cannot click but mouse can move
I have Ubuntu 16.04. The last thing I remember typing into the terminal was import python
This was done by mistake and I Ctrl+Z after to end that process.
I had pip uninstall monary maybe before that. ...
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How do you add "open in terminal" to the right-click mouse menu for folders/directories?
I would like to add it to the default menu (mouse right-click)
Like I want to right click on a folder and open it in the terminal.
I don't want to have to find the directory in the terminal.
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How do I automatically remap buttons on my mouse at startup?
I struggled with this over the weekend, and need to remap my mouse buttons.
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Mouse wheel jumpy on scrolling
I have a small issue that's really annoying me and wondering if there is a possible fix for it.
im using the latest distro of Ubuntu 10.10 and when scrolling up and down pages, especially in google ...
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Scroll with Middle Click [duplicate]
Can I use the middle click mouse button so I can scroll down faster, like in Windows?
When I am in Windows and I press the middle click somewhere I can scroll in, a 4-way pointer shows on the screen, ...
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How to take a screenshot with the actual pointer icon?
Normal keyboard shortcuts for screenshots like Ctrl+Print_Screen do not include the pointer in the image at all.
Special applications like Take Screenshot may offer an effect option to include the ...
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Keyboard and mouse unresponsive after suspend
I have a Toshiba Satellite S55-A5154 with 14.04 installed. Every time it resumes from being suspended, neither the keyboard nor mouse work. What can I do to fix this or provide you with more info?
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How to make xinput settings persist after devices are unplugged, replugged, and after shutdown, restart, etc?
I successfully followed the answer to this question to set different sensitivities for my touchpad and my USB mouse. Only problem is, once you unplug and replug the device or shutdown, restart etc., ...
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How do I swap mouse buttons to be left handed from the terminal?
I am left handed person.
Therefore I want to interchange the typical mouse buttons for right and left clicks.
I want to do this via terminal. May someone please suggest the command for it?
Is it ...
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How to restart only missing/invisible mouse pointer/cursor?
For some reason, the mouse pointer on my Ubuntu 10.04 PC disappears after the computer is woken up from suspend. That PC is missing a keyboard, so I can fix this by logging via ssh, and issuing:
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How can I assign actions to all my mouse buttons?
I have a mouse with lots of buttons, but it's not a mainstream make like Logitech. For Windows, I have a driver that lets me assign actions like close-window (Ctrl+W) or next-tab (Ctrl+Tab), but I don'...
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How to disable auto power off of usb devices like usb mouse?
I don't know how , but somehow automatic power-off of usb devices got accidentally enabled. Now my usb mouse goes off even if it's idle for 2-3 seconds. It's really irritating.
This happened after I ...
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Configure mouse speed (not pointer acceleration!)
Is there way to increase the mouse speed in KDE4? I don't want any pointer acceleration, it's just the mouse speed that I want to change.
Edit: Unfortunately, editing the xorg.conf is not an option ...
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Free software to share mouse and keyboard between linux and windows?
I have a doubt, there is a free program to share mouse between linux and windows, I have a PC and a laptop, on the laptop I have w10 and ubuntu mate 18.04, and the pc w10, when I use the PC and laptop ...
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USB slots stop working suddenly from time to time
After re-installing Lubuntu 12.04 system on my laptop an older problem re-emerged after a few days and installation of different programs: without apparent reason the external mouse and sometimes ...
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What's the difference between "mouse" and "sloppy"?
From the GConf key description:
The window focus mode indicates how windows are activated. It has three possible values; "click" means windows must be clicked in order to focus them, "sloppy" means ...
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Disabling middle mouse button
So I tried looking through the various other questions but they mostly focus on disabling the middle mouse paste.
Basically the middle mouse button on my Logitech G500s is broken, and it keeps "...
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How to disable sticky edges in Ubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier had a Option for On/Off Mouse Stickiness)
In Ubuntu 12.04~13.10, the Settings >> Display >> Sticky Edges [On/Off] option was available. In Ubuntu 14.10, it is missing. How do I disable Mouse Edge Stickiness so that when I move my mouse from ...
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How can I get rid of mouse lag under Ubuntu?
I experience mouse lag although the graphic card is recognized by the os. (I already had it on 15.10 and upgraded to 16.04). The mouse lag is not firefox or browser dependent. Is there anything I can ...
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How do I set focus follows mouse in Ubuntu 17.10 and later with GNOME 3?
I found multiple answers on askUbuntu about this topic. But none of them suites to Ubuntu 17.10.
So I need to ask again:
How do I set focus follows mouse in Ubuntu 17.10?
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Bluetooth on UBUNTU 20.04 constantly disconnecting
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and seems like the bluetooth isn't working as expected.
It's connecting to my Logi MX ERGO device and also connecting to my TWS headphone, but after a while ...
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Mouse cursor gets stuck in "drag and drop" mode
I have exactly the following issue with Ubuntu 17.04 (Gnome shell and desktop installed)
When clicking on the Bookmark root or on one of the bookmarks below
the mouse cursor gets stuck in "drag n ...
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Logitech MX Master Thumb Button with Ubuntu
Goal
I would like to get the Thumb Button on my Logitech MX Master mouse to work under Ubuntu 17.10. Specifically, I want it to serve as a "Meta" key, by which I mean pressing it will show me all the ...
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Disable "middle click to lower window" behaviour on gnome
I am using the Chromium web browser, and standard gnome (i.e. not unity). Chromium (like lots of things) has many tabs, and allows you to middle click on a tab to close the tab. But if I middle click ...
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How can I configure a Logitech M705 to use stepless scrolling?
I'm using a Logitech K750(keyboard) and M705(mouse) using the same (one!) unifying USB connector. I paired them with my mac, but use them on my desktop with Ubuntu 12.10. Works nice. Just a few ...
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Extra mouse buttons not working in virtualization (VMware/VirtualBox, ubuntu host)
I'm trying to run VMware Workstation and/or VirtualBox on Ubuntu. The virtual machines are working perfectly in both applications, except for the extra mouse buttons (forward/backward). In Ubuntu the ...
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How can I see the battery status of my Logitech wireless mouse?
Is there a way to monitor the mouse's battery status in Kubuntu? I have a Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 and in Windows I can use the default software (from official site) to monitor battery status and ...
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How do I enable Middle mouse button emulation in 12.04 LTS?
How do I enable Middle mouse button emulation in 12.04 LTS?
I think it was disabled by default in the last release. I'm sure this is a silly question but I can't find a generic answer, they all seem ...
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Reduce the Mouse Sensitivity
Is there anyway to reduce the mouse sensitivity in Ubuntu 12.04?
I've used the slider on the systems settings to set it to the lowest point but it's still too fast.
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Drag-and-drop functionality no longer working after upgrade to 19.04
After upgrading from 18.04 to 19.04 (with a necessary upgrade to 18.10 between) on a Lenovo Yoga 11e, I can no longer drag and drop anything (ie, files, windows, etc.) with the touchpad. I can, ...
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How to disable mouse power status in indicator-power?
Today I have updated to Ubuntu 13.10 and got mouse power status.
But I didn't need it. And also Ubuntu doesn't know how long the mouse will work and shows an ugly "estimating...".
How do you show ...