Questions about Ubuntu's multi-touch features.
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Mouse moving and clicking on its own in 13.04
I recently upgraded from 12.10 where I had been having some mild touchpad problems. I'm running an Avatar Mercury ultrabook with an elantech touchpad which refuses to support multitouch under 12.10.
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Trackpad multitouch gestures on 13.04
I have Ubuntu 13.04 on an Acer Aspire 5750 that has a trackpad. I'd like to use 3 or 4 finger multitouch gestures to perform certain actions.
I can use 2 fingers to scroll, but I would like to, for ...
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TouchScreen recognized, but not working in 13.04
First, let me mention that one of the first things I tested was the fact that the touchscreen was operating during the GUI installation process. Now that we've established that...
After full ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 three-finger window moving not working anymore
I juste upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 on my Samsung New Series 9 (NP900X4C-A01FR).
Before, in 12.10, I could move/minimize/maximize the windows, using 3 fingers. These 3 functions doesn't work anymore.
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Single point touch doesn't work
This is a problem that has persisted since 11.10 and mainly the reason I've moved from Ubuntu to other Distros. On Ubuntu, single point touch works on and off only however multitouch works all the ...
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A couple of multitouch gestures are not working in 13.04 compared to 12.04
The three finger pinch and zoom as well as the three fingers to move the window are not working in 13.04. Any ideas on how to fix this. My computer is the i5 Acer Aspire S7.
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Two finger swipe to go back in browser in precise?
Have tried various things but I can't find a good solution to enable two finger swipe to go 'back' in a browser. Two finger vertical scrolling works fine, but it's side-swipe back/foward I'm after.
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How do I get the touchpad working on an Acer Aspire 5332
I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 on my Acer Aspire 5332. I now have an issue with my touchpad not working. When I type the command x input list in the terminal here is what comes up:
~$ ...
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How to activate my touchpad features on Samsung Series 7 Chronos
I'm just looking to how enable the features of my touchpad on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.10. The mouse is working but none of the features are working (like two fingers scrolling up/down).
I visited ...
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Touchpad recognized as generic ps/2 mouse on a Dell Inspiron 13z 5323
After installing Ubuntu my touchpad has basic functionality but no edge scrolling, multitouch, or any advanced features. Xinput list shows it as a generic ps/2 mouse:
⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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Some multitouch gestures not working on 13.04 [closed]
"3 finger pinch to maximize/restore windows" and "3 finger press and drag to move window" used to work on my Asus X201E on 12.10, but not after upgrading to 13.04. All other gestures mentioned in ...
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Touchpad on a Fujitsu Lifebook a532
My touchpad is not working as it should. Well, it works but cant use 2-finger scroll.
I get this:
axept@aXept-Lifebook:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 ...
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Multitouch gestures not working
I've got an alps touchpad. I'm sure it's multitouch because I can use it for 3 finger gestures in windows 8. Why don't they work with ubuntu? Is it configured to only work with a synaptics touchpad? ...
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HTML5 multi touch events from touch screen
I have a Ubuntu machine with a 24" touchscreen and it is working fine. I can move the mouse, do gestures with several touch points and such so the hardware is working fine. Now I wonder if it is ...
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Touchpad gesture available in Unity?
By default, my touchpad support two finger scrolling, two finger tap to double click, and single tap on upper right corner of touchpad to middle click (which is annoying, accidentally do middle click ...
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synaptics multitouch not working 12.04
I have a laptop (Acer 7745G) with a synaptics touchpad that should support up to 3 finger multitouch if I am interpreting the output of grep "TouchPad: buttons" /var/log/Xorg.0.log correctly. The ...
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Multi-touch for XPS-15
I realise there are hundreds of other threads just like this. But all solutions seem to be out of date or are just not specific to my machine. I used a Mac-book Pro for the first time, I hated ...
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Touch Pad is detected as a generic mouse device in 12.04
My touchpad seems like PS/2Generic Mouse device with the output xinput. I cannot set it correctly albeit I gave some tries. In addition its multitouch functions do not work becasue of this detection ...
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can't get touchegg to work with my touchpad
Im sorry guys. I dunno if anyone's willing to help me and I'm just wasting my time here. But I've been poking around on the internet for days trying to find a way to get my Synaptics touchpad (Acer ...
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Touchpad gestures don't work on Dell XPS 15 L521x
I'm trying to get multi-touch gestures working on my Dell XPS 15. Two finger scrolling works but three or four finger gestures do not. I know that the touchpad is capable of multi-touch gestures ...
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Two-finger selection on apple touchpad
On OSX, you can do precise selection on a touchpad with the following gesture:
Click on the beginning on selection with one finger
Holding the clicking finger, swipe the second finger to adjust the ...
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Is uTouch still in use or under development?
I have not been hearing or seeing much regarding uTouch, and with the recent developments regarding Ubuntu Touch, I've been wondering, is uTouch still used in Ubuntu (as in will it be a part of the ...
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Kubuntu trackpad multifinger gesture support
I was wondering if there's a way to enable multi finger gesture support in Kubuntu 12.10. I specifically would like to quickly be able to change desktop or minimise apps. Other functionality would ...
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multitouch gestures in GNOME-Shell
I switched from Unity to GNOME, and I really miss the gestures on Unity (3 fingers window moving, expand to maximize, etc).
I have two finger scrolling and two finger tap to right click out of the ...
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3 finger multitouch - Lenovo E530
i have started to try out some more from Ubuntu as dualboot on my laptop (Lenovo E530 with 640M). In Windows my touchpads gestures are working with three fingers to emulate back and forward (in a ...
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How do I make a multitouch touchscreen working on ubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
I have a multitouch touchscreen with USB interface.
It works fine on android platform.
And I am working on making it to support multitouch gesture on ubuntu 12.10.
However, it acts as a single ...
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Multitouch screen not detected on Asus Taichi 21DH71
I just bought this Ultrabook "Asus Taichi 21 DH71".
This has Intel 3rd generation i7 processor and 4gb ram with 256 gb SSD. The main feature is that it is a hybrid machine. Naming it has dual ...
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How can I disable Elantech Touchpad while typing on Ubuntu 12.10?
I have an Asus laptop (non zenbook) which I purchased last week. It has an Elantech Touchpad on it. Here's what's working:
Edge scrolling or Two Finger Scrolling.
Three finger and Two finger.
Left ...
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How can I continue having two fingers on the trackpad?
I'm quite new to ubuntu (with GUI) - just got over from OS X.
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my MacBook Pro 9.2, and I have the habit of leaving one finger at the bottom of the trackpad ready to ...
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Completely redifine clickpad actions. Three finger scrolling. Two finger dragging
Is there a way to completely remap actions of clickpad / touchpad?
I would like to be able to configure these things on my Samsung Series 9 900x3c clickpad (I would pick some of them that are ...
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Multitouch with one finger on mousepad
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Asus N56VZ and the multitouch works great! The only issue i'm having is that I'm used to having my left index finger idle on the bottom left of the touchpad ...
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Reactivate Touchpad Two-Finger-Scroll on L430
I'm just installing Ubuntu 12.10. on my ThinkPad L430 and the Trackpoint didn't work. So I executed the workaround
echo "options psmouse proto=exps" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/trackpoint.conf
and ...
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Touchscreen and digitizer not working on Sony Vaio Duo 11
I have a Sony VAIO Duo 11 (SVD112...) which features both multi-touch and stylus input. However, booting up Ubuntu 12.10 gives me
no stylus reaction
touch input works very strange: when I touch with ...
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Configuring Apple Magic Trackpad in 12.04
How should I configure a Magic Trackpad in 12.04 to
ignore my thumb at the bottom of the trackpad
change scrolling speed
change gesture functions (e.g. have three-finger tap = middle-click), if ...
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How to change touch gestures bindings in utouch on 11.10 to match the ones in 10.10?
When upgrading from 10.10 I noticed that touch gesture bindings have changed, from middle click via 3-finger touch, I need 5 fingers and 3 fingers is snap-move.
I tried to search online for a way to ...
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Multitouch Gestures in 12.10: disabling four-finger-swipe + re-configuring generally
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch describes a set of default "Supported Gestures" that come with Ubuntu 12.10 -- and they work as described on my MacBook Pro 13" Retina.
But I can't figure out how ...
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Touchegg not working 12.10 after multi-touch unity gestures disabled
I've read the thread here How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity? where people seem to have solved their problems with touchegg in 12.10.
As for me, I'm able to install ...
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Will Microsoft Touch Mouse work?
I would like to buy Microsoft Touch Mouse but I don't know if it's going to work. I am interested especially on the multitouch functions (gestures) and touch scrolling. Have anyone tested it on ...
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Multi-touch touchpad on Asus F55A
I just set up Ubuntu 11.10 on an ASUS F55A-SXO47D and have a question about the multi-touch touchpad. It works as such, but is very jumpy and almost impossible to control. So bad as to make it quite ...
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Dell XPS 15z Multi-touch Odd Behaviour
I have a Dell XPS 15z with 12.04 installed.
Once in a while, when I'm using multi-touch scrolling (two-fingers to scroll down), the computer logs out. It's as if I clicked the log out button, but ...
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Sitronix ST9RM01 touchscreen not working
I have a Sitronix ST9RM01 touchscreen that I'm trying to get working with Ubuntu 12.04.
The touchscreen is apparently recognized by Linux and X - the hid_multitouch module is loaded, and lsinput and ...
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How to use getures on clickpad? (Gnome- Shell)
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Acer Apsire V5 touch, and I want to know hot to activate the gestures on my clickpad in Gnome SHell, because in Unity I can use them with no problems.
I really ...
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multitouch gestures
I wanted to know how I could configure multi-touch gestures in Ubuntu. In windows I can do this using the synaptics driver software.
I have already used synclient to configure the taps, palmdetect, ...
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Low-level 10-finger multi-touch data on the Nexus 7?
I'm considering getting a Nexus 7 to do some multi-touch development on Ubuntu in the run-up to 13.04 (i.e., now :-).
What APIs, /dev files, or protocols are available, or could be made available ...
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How do I make 3finger multitouch work on Samsung 530?
I have Samsung 530U4C.
How can I configure 3-finger gestures to work?
Choosing next photo using 3 finger "scrool" worked in Windows 7.
If I use synclient TapButton3=2 I may use it as medium mouse ...
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(thinkpad t400) Two-finger scroll stops working after reboot
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and I really want to use two-finger scrolling on the Synaptics TouchPad.
I can't activate it in the System Preferences because the checkbox is disabled. Finally I managed to ...
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How do I enable multitouch support on synaptics?
I'm using Vaio which uses Synaptics touch pad. Multi touch gestures worked with no trouble on my previous installed operating system, windows 7. Now it seems like I can't use multi touch gestures on ...
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Rapoo Wireless Touch Optical Mouse T6
I am interested in buying Rapoo Wireless Touch Optical Mouse T6.
As killer feature it has:
Intelligent Multi-Touch technology brings a creative driving gesture
for mouse.
Will it work under ...
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Where is utouch in ubuntu 12.10?
I have recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.10 and utouch seems to be removed from my system and I am not able to reinstall it through apt-get. Where can I find it?
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How to edit Unity multitouch gestures?
I can't find a way to modify the touchpad gestures Unity uses by default on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10.
Tried with Ginn, but it shows error subscribing to gestures and it seems because of Unity.
Is there a ...
