Questions tagged [multi-touch]
Questions about Ubuntu's multi-touch features.
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How to ignore third finger tapping when two fingers are resting on the touchpad?
On my laptop with Ubuntu 18.04, resting two fingers on the touchpad and tapping with a third is registered as a three finger tap, while resting a single finger on the touchpad and tapping with another ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Touchscreen Kiosk – Disable Multi-Touch Gestures
I'm running a kiosk touchscreen through Chromium. I've got it setup so that a Chromium application is running with the --kiosk flag, which prevents access to the OS.
The problem I have is with the ...
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Disable three finger paste on ubuntu 16.04
How do I disable three finger paste in Ubuntu 16.04?
The output of xinput list-props <Touchpad>
looks like this:
Device Enabled (142): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (144): 1.000000, 0....
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Touchegg Setup issues on Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 - Macbookpro 11,1
The issue: Touchegg only works with terminal open.
Hi, I'm trying to setup touchegg so I emulate Mac OS X multitouch gestures on Ubuntu. From what I've read on the internet, it does work with Ubuntu ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 - Touchpad recognized as mouse - Multitouch gestures not working
I'm having a problem with my laptop, as the title says:
The trackpad is being recognized as a mouse, so I don't have multitouch gestures, other than scrolling.
I can't switch apps with gestures, I ...
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Send touch events from touchpad?
I was wondering if you can configure a synaptics or libinput powered touchpad to also expose its touch events, so that an API such as Xinput2.2 can consume them. Using evtest I can see that five ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 crash due to startup application
I am new to Ubuntu and had been running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dual boot with Windows 10.
I just installed touchegg and added it in startup applications using the following procedure :
https://www....
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ELAN0504:01 04F3:309E Touchpad Multitouch
When running in Windows, I'm able to use multitouch gestures with my touchpad. Unfortunately, when running on Ubuntu 19.10, I can't do a two-finger back gesture in my browser or any three or four ...
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How can I get Firefox to recognize multitouch gestures on a touch screen?
Multitouch seems to be working fine on Chromium out of the box, but not on Firefox. On Chromium, dragging a finger up or down the screen scrolls the screen as expected, but on Firefox, that gesture ...
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How to configure my touchpad to switch between workspaces with a swipe
I want to switch between workspaces on my Ubuntu 16.04LTS with a swipe on my touch pad. I read some questions and answers here to find a solution before asking. but there is no horizontal scrolling ...
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Libinput two finger scrolling problem
The problem is the following: my touchpad starts reacting on two-finger scrolling gesture wrong. It seems like it doesn't react on quick gesture at all and very bad on slow gesture. For synpatic ...
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Enable middle mouse button touchpad emulation for xubuntu 18.04 on Dell XPS 15
How can I map a three-finger tab on the touchpad to a middle mouse click? In another question I've found
synclient TapButton3=2
and this works, but it seems a bit strange to run a shell script on ...
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How can I get 2 finger scrolling to work?
I use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and for some reason I can't scroll with 2 fingers.
I don't have an option to add it in settings:
I tried installing Synaptic Package Manager and using that to enable it but ...
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First steps with ginn
I just installed ginn on my Ubuntu 18.04 with:
sudo apt install ginn
I found the configuration with:
cat /etc/ginn/wishes.xml
How do I start the program so that I can use multitouch gestures on ...
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Two-finger scrolling not working on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ryzen 5 Pro 2500U Dell Latitude 5495
Recently purchased the Dell Latitude 5495, installed Ubuntu straight away.
Immediately started noticing some minor issues:
Mouse Pointer would randomly just freeze, like frozen, need to restart to ...
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Touchpad tap stopped working
Touchpad tap stopped working on Ubuntu 16.04
I installed genome 3.2 and then removed it, and convert back to unity.
Two finger scrolling is working.
I don't see touchpad settings in settings.
I've ...
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Am I able to use two mice in my Ubuntu desktop?
I'm using an Acer laptop, and Ubuntu 19.04.
I want to use my laptop touchpad and my wireless mouse separately with two cursors.
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Dell XPS 13 9350 touchpad multi finger gesture on Ubuntu 19.04
Having installed and set-up my Ubuntu 19.04 to my liking I found out that I missed the multi-finger gestures that were available on Windows 10.
The two-finger scrolling works fine.
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Running 13.04 on Dell XPS 12?
Will Ubuntu 13.04 run well on my Dell XPS 12?
Basically, I want the most up to date Ubuntu software working on my computer and with touch support.
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ASUS touchpad not working properly
I have an ASUS K510UQ Laptop running Ubuntu 17.10. Ever since I installed Ubuntu, I have been having issues with the touch pad. The touch pad very frequently detects double taps when I do a single tap ...
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Horizontal scrolling controls volume (Ubuntu 19.04)
I am on Ubuntu 19.04, GNOME Shell 3.32.1, on a Lenovo laptop. I have installed libinput-tools and some touchpad gestures work fine. However, there is a gesture that I cannot find in the libinput ...
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How much Multitouch does my computer support?
I've got a Dell notebook at work, but I don't know much about which model it is, except that it is a XPS. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on it.
Now, I know, that the Monitor and the Touchpad have some ...
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touchpad drag stops working after sleep (18.04/18.10)
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th, on startup the touch-pad works fine, I can click on something with one finger then drag it with the other.
After sleep I can only click but not drag...
I have the ...
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Add a dead region to touchpad
I'm constantly fighting with my touchpad. It keeps randomly interpreting two-finger taps (which I have set to middle click) while I'm attempting to type. This appears to be due to the touchpad's ...
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Help Needed! -- Left-Click Function (mouse AND trackpad) Randomly Stops Working
Dell Latitude E7440 i7-4600U. Ubuntu 18.4 LTS.
Semi-non-techie (mid-level novice), new Linux user (~2 months), layperson here.
I have no idea why it happens, but sometimes the left-click ...
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How do I use Unity drag handles?
I saw on this post that Unity has touch enabled drag handles. How do I turn them on so I can use them with a mouse?
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Touch pad of Asus VivoBook freezes after touching it with two fingers
I have recently installed Ubuntu 16 LTS on an ASUS VivoBook Max. The touchpad doesn't seem to be working properly. It freezes after touching it with two fingers and the functionality is not recovered ...
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Touchpad stuck in horizontal scroll box
Using two-fingered scrolling on the trackpad has become second nature to me as a former user of OS X.
I made the switch recently to Ubuntu 18.04 and am surprised to find how difficult two-fingered ...
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Libinput-gesture maximize/unmaximize and minimize window :: Wayland
I use wayland and gnome 3.28.
I would like to set libinput so that a 4 finger swipe up maximize/unmaximize the currently active window, and a 4 finger swipe down minimize it.
I digged a bit and it ...
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Two-finger-scroll won't autorotate (18.10)
I have a Dell Precision 5530 2-in-1 and with Ubuntu 18.10 everything works ridiculously well.
There is one (admittedly rather minor) issue though.
When I go into tablet mode the two-finger-scroll won'...
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How to Configure Clickpad?
I am running xubuntu 13.10 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It works very well, except the behaviour of my clickpad (touchpad where the buttons are built into the surface) makes it essentially unusable....
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Touchscreen multitouch works in XWayland but not Xorg
I have a Thinkpad X1 Tablet running Ubuntu 18.10. Using two fingers to scroll, zoom around, etc works great (in e.g. Chromium) when running under XWayland, but only a single touch point seems to be ...
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Mac like MultiTouch support
I don't remember how but in 11.10 I had managed to find a few multitouch actions to be supporetd by some software.
Now I am using 12.04, Is there any way/application/workaround/plugin or anything ...
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Kubuntu 18.10 touchpad cannot be configured
Most of the touchpad settings are grayed out, so I can't alter things like touchpad sensitivity our multi-finger clicks. I ran Official Ubuntu (GNOME) 18.10 a few days ago on the same laptop without ...
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Improve Ubuntu's two-finger scroll
I am using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. It is possible to enable two-finger scrolling from the settings. But the feature is not as good as in Windows. When I scroll with the two fingers vertically, Windows ...
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One user has two finger scrolling the other does not
I'm trying to troubleshoot my husband's computer, running 18.04. My gnome shell on his machine has two finger scrolling that works just fine. His gnome shell "mouse and touchpad" settings are ...
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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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Ubuntu 16.04 multitouch gestures
Is it possible to make multitouch gestures on Ubuntu Xenial Xerus? For example with TouchEgg? I tried already but without success.
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Adding mac like gestures in ubuntu
I am using ubuntu 18 and trying to use this guide to add mac like trackpad gestures, I did everything and nothing happens. my lenovo laptop supports multi gesture.
What should I do?
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acer aspire touchpad gestures not working
When I try to load the psmouse module I get:
$ /sbin/rmmod psmouse
rmmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:793 kmod_module_remove_module() could not remove 'psmouse': Operation not permitted
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How can I make my touchpad scroll either vertically or horizontally, but not both?
If I'm browsing the internet and a page has both horizontal and vertical scroll bars it becomes really irritating to scroll with my touchpad. It keeps scrolling horizontally as well as vertically!
I'...
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Need Gestures on my Ubuntu and Lenovo T430
I purchased a Lenovo T450 and Installed Ubuntu 18.04. Its awesome the machine is so fast and efficient and everything is so snappy. Just fantastic. I need a few gestures on the trackpad.
Is there a ...
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Multitouch gestures on the touchpad
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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How to identify touchpad for xorg.conf modification?
UPDATE: I just upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04.
Couldn't do this earlier as I was in the middle of a large project, and didn't want to take any risk.
The Elan touchpad is now properly reported by xinput.
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How can I test to see if my touchpad is supports more than 2 finger gestures?
I'd like to use some of the Unity multitouch features. I know my touchpad supports 2 finger gestures since it scrolls when I 2 finger drag on the touchpad.
How can I test to see if my touchpad ...
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Touchpad ALPS problem with two fingers right click, Ubuntu 16.04
Guys!
I have very strange problem with ALPS touchpad (DELL Latitude E7470 laptop) on Ubuntu 16.04 (the same issue on 16.10, but not on Mint Cin 18.3): when I try to produce right click on touchpad (...
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Disable Multitouch for kiosk mode
We control some public stands for information. These things come with a 4 finger touch screen. Problem is, when a user swipes with 4 fingers, the GNOME menu appears. The user now can do a lot of ...
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How to disable horizontal mouse wheel scrolling when mouse is over horizontal scrollbar
When I'm scrolling around code, I sometimes put my mouse over the horizontal scrollbar and then the mouse wheel scrolls horizontally which is not what I'm used to.
More annoyingly, the two-finger ...
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Touch-pads gesture disabled after connect a bluetooth mouse
My touch-pad's gesture has been disable just after I had connected my mouse in Bluetooth.
I deleted my mouse device profile in the Bluetooth manager and disabled Bluetooth. I restarted my system.
I ...
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