Questions tagged [multi-touch]
Questions about Ubuntu's multi-touch features.
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Configure touchpad
I bought a new laptop and installed Ubuntu 14.04. I can use touchpad and I have synaptics driver installed but I'm not able to:
Turn on and off touchpad (laptop has a function key which doesn't work ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 and google Chrome with touchscreen, no left click
I am using the Latest version of chrome with 64bit 14.04 running on my Sony Vaio Tab Duo 11. I am trying to use the touchscreen and everything looks great, scrolling is very nice, i can swipe to go ...
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Synclient: monitor changes to the touchpad state with 1.7.1
I'm attempting to resolve some issues with my touchpad by getting the debugging output via this tutorial. One of the steps in the tutorial advises me to monitor the touchpad activity with the ...
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Touchpad emulate right click and hold with 3 fingers
I have a Firefox plug-in called "All-in-One Gestures" I have a new Lenovo laptop with ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad and no mouse.
What I would like to achieve is the following: when I move three fingers ...
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Will Ubuntu 13.10 work with the capacitive touch functions in HP EliteBook Revolve 810?
I have a HP EliteBook Revolve 810 p/n D3K50UT#ABA with 10 finger capacitive touch functions, auto-rotate and many other features. Will Ubuntu 13.10 work with these functions?
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Ubuntu 14.04 gnome touchpad gestures
I want to extend the touchpad gestures of the system, I've ran into touchegg but in my case it did not work. I've read its not working on ubuntu 14.04 gnome environment.
Any help is appreciated. I ...
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Can I get inverted (i.e. Mac-like) scrolling on my touchpad?
I have two-finger scrolling enabled on my touchpad. Moving my fingers up scrolls up and moving them down scrolls down. I would like to have the direction of scrolling inverted, in much the same way ...
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Elantech touchpad: right button OR two-finger scroll [duplicate]
Dear Ubuntu community,
I recently bought an AsusPro PU401LA laptop (FreeDOS, wiped by Ubuntu 13.10).
It ships with a regular Elantech touchpad, i.e. it has physical left and right buttons.
I would ...
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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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Three fingers swipe and page back and forth in browser on Ubuntu 13.04
Is there anything that enables you to back and forth web pages in a browser with three fingers swipe on Ubuntu 13.04, as seamlessly as on OS X, if not better?
Google searching told me that touchegg ...
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Getting HP Envy touch display to work a bit better
Currently I have an HP Envy with a touchscreen running Ubuntu. The touchscreen does work to some extent (I can click most things and drag selection boxes on the desktop) but it doesn't seem to want to ...
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How to stop Unity love handles on onscreen keybord
I have a Dell XPS12 - the one that converts into a tablet.
When typing with onboard [default onscreen keyboard], sometimes 3 fingers will be touching the screen at the same time. This launches the ...
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About programming multi-pointer apps
it could seem stupid, i am a noob in programming, but here is the question :
I search multi-pointer applications in the web (desktop, web, terminal, whatever), specifically not multi-touch but apps ...
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Wrong zoom in/out behavior touchpad move
Scenario:
Being in browser, I drag the touchpad using two fingers -> page scroll
While the page is scrolling (my fingers are not on touchpad anymore), I press CTRL key.
The page is zoomed in/out
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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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How to enable Two finger scrolling on Lenovo Thinkpad T400/W540
It is disabled (greyed out) in Mouse and Touchpad settings. Edge scrolling works though :) Tried many solutions available online but couldn't succeed.
My touchpad is
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
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Multi-Finger Gestures in 14.04
I'm running 14.04 on a Lenovo Y500. I want to get multi-touch gestures running, specifically a three-finger swipe to switch desktops. I would like to keep using the Unity interface, so I can't use ...
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how to disable all Multi touch or just a few
I have a trackpad that even the right and left click buttons are part of the touch surface. So when I use my middle finger to move the mouse and my point finger to click ( like in a click and drag ...
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Holding touchpad button detect multitouch
I just swiched over to Kubuntu from Windows. Everything works for now, except 1 thing realy bothers me.
I have asus N750 with touchpad.
In windows, if I had my finger placed on left button, I was ...
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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 [master ...
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What is this window overlay?
After waking up from suspend, I see these half-transparent window handles, but I don't know how to activate it.
Sometimes I can deactivate it by tapping the touchpad.
What is the function of this?
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Thinkpad X201 Touchscreen Missing on Resume
I am running Ubuntu 13.10 on a Thinkpad X201 with a Wacom Touchscreen. The touchscreen seems to work fine, but upon resume after suspending, the touchscreen does not work. It actually doesn't even ...
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How can I use two-finger swipe to switch windows?
I'd basically like the Alt+Tab combination to be performed whenever I swipe with two fingers left or right. I saw similar functionality in a Mac OS X and I think it might be useful =)
TouchEgg wiki, ...
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Multitouch Gestures on 15" retina macbookpro and ubuntu 13
How do i enable multitouch gestures like pinch & zoom, three fingers drag, 4 fingers swipe (basically what osx has) in ubuntu 13 on 15" retina macbookpro?
The basic 1 tap for clicking and 2 ...
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Multitouch in Qt
I've got a fresh install of Kubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator/5.2.1, and I'm trying to get multi-touch working for the example applications like photosurface.
My input device is an Acer T272HL 10 point ...
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two finger scroll issues: erratic selecting and app switching -Macbook pro 8,1
I've got ubuntu 13.04 on a Macbook pro 8,1
I'm having issues with two fingered scrolling,
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I can't select multiple items from a long list,
because when I touch my fingers on the pad to scroll ...
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How to move/resize window by tapping/dragging on the touchpad on 14.04?
I have a Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition that came with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed. In 12.04, I was able to move and resize windows by tapping/dragging on the touchpad with three fingers.
Yesterday, I ...
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Problem with synclient: '-m' flag missing
I'm trying to set up an action for three finger flick gesture using the instructions given here, and it worked perfectly well before upgrading to kubuntu 13.10 from 13.04. When I follow the ...
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Trackpad gestures problems
I have a Clevo P150SM with a synaptics trackpad and I wish to have multi-touch gestures for expo, scale, show desktop, change view port, etc...
I am using Ubuntu 13.10 with mate as a desktop ...
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Touchpad issues with 13.10 macpro retina
I've had ubuntu on my mac retina for a while now. Initially I installed it back in a 12.x release which came with quite sophisticated touch support. It had 2 and 3 button gestures, however these were ...
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How to change touch gestures bindings in utouch on 11.10 and above to match the ones in 10.10? [closed]
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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touchegg gestures on desktop
I am trying to use three finger scrolling on the desktop, but it is not responding. It only works when i am holding the cursor on a app or the plank. Can i edit something in the config file to change ...
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Pinch-Zoom on Asus UX302LG touchscreen
I am using Ubuntu 14.04.
The system only recognizes multitouch tapping like 3 fingers for move window, 4 fingers for open dash, but no mutitouch-gesture that involves holding the fingers on the ...
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Ignoring horizontal scrolling while scrolling vertically
I use two-finger scrolling.
I would like to enable horizontal scrolling using dconf Editor but when I do, every time I scroll vertically, if I happen to move horizontally even a little, it is ...
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Do I need to install any drivers for 2 finger swipe
I am able to use 2 finger swipe and 2 finger tap in my laptop running Win8 but it is not working in Ubuntu 12.04. Should I install any additional drivers or is it a limitation of Ubuntu?
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Reset Synaptics Touchpad
I've got a Samsung Series 9 notebook (900x3a) running Ubuntu Natty. It's running absolutely smoothly except for some times when the touch pad gets "hiccups" and appears to recognize an additional ...
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Apple Magic mouse on ubuntu 13.04, how can I prevent crashing one >=3 touch points?
I'm trying to get my magic mouse to work on Ubuntu 13.04. When I connect it, everything works fine (haven't tested gestures). However, when I touch it with more than 2 touch points, it crashes and ...
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Touchegg settings unchangeable
I've installed Ubuntu 13.10 on my asus zenbook (ux31e), and I like it very much! I tried to find a solution for my multi-touch touchpad, and found touchegg. Installed it via the software center, and I'...
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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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Is there a "show touches" application?
Is there an application that will "show touches" similar to what is found in Android's developer options?
I have a 10 point multitouch monitor (Planar Helium PCT2785) and it appears to only support ...
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Touchpad lost gestures and touchegg requres hack?
I've had some success getting my touchpad to be usable by configuring syclient (although it was surprising that this was necessary).
Reading around I find that many gestures have been removed from ...
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Apple Magic Trackpad aftrer upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04 (64 Bit) - Multitouch not working!
The title describes my problem. On Ubuntu 11.10 Multi-touch worked fine on my Apple Magic Trackpad. Now i have only "ONE-FINGER-Control". Scrolling is only possible on the right side of the pad with ...
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Touchpad multi-tap buttons not configured correctly on 12.04 LTS
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on an Acer C7 chromebook with chrubuntu. Overall, it works very well, but there is one minor problem. I would like one finger for left click, and two for right click.
I can ...
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How can a touchscreen be made to disable temporarily while an active digitiser is in use?
I have a ThinkPad Yoga which features both a capacitive touchscreen and a Wacom digitiser. I can disable the touchscreen manually (using something such as xinput disable <id> in a command ...
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My new laptop is powerful, How can i use all its power for ubuntu?
I've recently changed my laptop to a much powerful one and i'm wondering how can i tweak ubuntu to use all the hardware power to speed up system.
My Previous laptop was a i3 Sony Vaio, And my current ...
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How do I use multi-touch gestures on a MacBook Air? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Air (13" mid 2011) and it works lovely! Are there any news or possibilites to use multi-touch gestures?
But to now I am using the system out of the box. One and ...
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Multitouch Gestures on Ubuntu 13.10
I've recently purchased an HP Envy Touchsmart 15 and so far the touchscreen has worked excellently and I'm very pleased with it. I know of the 4 finger to open the dash and the 3 to move windows so I ...
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Why were multi touch trackpad gestures removed from 13.04?
I have an ASUS Zenbook UX31a and multi touch gestures worked great on 12.10, but after I upgraded to 13.04 every gesture stopped working, except for 2, 3 and 4 finger taps (the 3 finger tapped changed ...
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How do I enable multi touch on a Dell inspiron n5110 with an ALPS touchpad?
How can I enable touch pad gestures(multi touch effects) of alps touch pad which comes with dell inspiron n5110 in ubuntu 11.10. These gestures worked fine with windows.
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Two finger swipe to go back in browser in precise? [duplicate]
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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