Questions tagged [button]
Tag indicates this is either mouse or GUI related problem (e.g. left button not working or power button grayed out).
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Touchpad hardware buttons not working
I'm a beginner in Ubuntu and I have version 14.04 LTS installed. I checked the previous answers and forums but so far I've not been able to make this working!
My issue is that the touchpad hardware ...
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Ctrl-S doesn't work as "save" anywhere in Ubuntu
This is my first time posting here. I have been working with Linux not for a bit, but I'm still getting the hang of it sometimes.
At some given point in time my save combination Ctrl+s stopped ...
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Photoshop CS6 crashes every time clicking text button
Every time I click text button on photoshop it just crashes, is there a solution for this?
https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q4rhV.png
Thanks
Update: I have microsoft fonts installed, is it possible that ...
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The 'Start button' doesn't always work in Ubuntu Studio 14.04
I'm not sure what it's called in Ubuntu, but the Ubuntu Studio logo that's analogous to the place of the windows start button, doesn't always work. If I've been using it in the last couple of minutes ...
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Removed the function of one of my mouse buttons by trying to change it
I'm fairly new to Ubuntu. I'm using a mouse with two extra thumb buttons and I figured it would be handy to use them for volume control.
After googling around a bit I ended here: Configuring mouse ...
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How to add link buttons with label in quickly glade
I'm making my own application, I can add link buttons on quickly glade, but the link buttons dont have a label, they just have "button" written on them. How can I add my own label on the link buttons? ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 volume buttons don't work properly
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and now the three volume buttons (increase, decrease, mute) on my laptop (Lenovo T400) don't work properly. After reboot they work fine, but after some hours (...
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How to disable the feature of automatic system shutdown in 60 seconds?
After pressing the physical power button on computer it's shown a 60 second countdown dialogue box:
"This system will be automatically shutdown in 60 seconds"
How can I disable this feature?
The ...
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remapping additional mouse buttons to multimedia keys
So, I bought a new mouse, and it has 4 additional buttons (2 thumb buttons, and scrollwheel left/right) and I was wondering, since my PC doesn't have multimedia keys, can I remap those buttons to play,...
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Why does the "all settings" button in unity-control-center have no effect?
I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop system. I haven't configured anything yet. Thus, the very first action was to start the unity-control-center by clicking on the gears icon. Then, I ...
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Can I make a script to prevent mouse bounce clicks?
Recently my mouse has started bounce clicking, single clicks act as double and even tipple clicks most if the time. Holding left click tends to spam click and trying to do anything has become ...
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Mute button won't toggle / un-mute
On my old DELL Latitude D620 I'm running Lubuntu. The mute button won't toggle / un-mute. I press it and it mutes fine. But when i press it again it won't un-mute. I have to use the mouse an go to the ...
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Ubuntu Quickly: How do I set a button to launch a specific Ubuntu Application
I'm very new to linux and I don't know very much. I was creating my own application with Quickly, and I wanted to have a button which launches the Hardware Information application "Hardinfo". I'm very ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 - Install Now button disabled [duplicate]
Unable to install Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Windows XP because the "Install Now" button (and the Back button) are disabled on the Partitioning screen.
Any suggestions on how to proceed are appreciated.
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Assigning Print button to screenshot not working after upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04
When I pressed the Print button, nothing happened.
Checked in System Settings, the button is assigned to screenshot.
If I assign ANY other button except Print, it works normally.
Is this a known ...
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Remap side touch button on Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse
I recently purchased a Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse. It uses Bluetooth to connect to my laptop and all regular mouse buttons work perfect under both Linux and Windows 7. What's different about this ...
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How to move one button from the left corner of the top bar on Ubuntu?
I'm trying discover the name of that button that is on the left corner of the top bar on Ubuntu. It has these items: "About this computer" and "Users session".
What is the name of this button?
I ...
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Where can I find btnx? [duplicate]
I'm having trouble finding packages or source for the btnx service, it looks like the ollisalonen.com site that hosted btnx is no longer available. I also cannot find any btnx packages in apt or on ...
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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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t902: Additional buttons - how to use them?
I have a Fujitsu T902 and have several problems. I guess I'll split them up into different questions. I have installed 13.10 Ubuntu, uname -a tells me:
3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 ...
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How to configure Logitech Performance MX 950?
I am completely new to Ubuntu 13.04 and I do not have much experience using terminal. However, I would like to assign the "zoom" button on my Performance MX mouse to show workspaces... I find the ...
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Why Firefox menu button disappeared?
I'm using the latest stable Firefox under Ubuntu 13.04 x64. I disabled menu bar, because using the menu button is more comfortable for me. Until an update (around version 21 or 22) the button just ...
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Simulate Right-click in laptop.
In my laptop the right-click button is not working. Is there any way ( like a long left-click) which can simulate a right-click. Also my laptop don't have a Number-pad. So I can't use Mouse-keys ...
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ButtonMapping - Positional parameters
In an X configuration file mouse buttons can be mapped using a ButtonMapping option:
Section "InputClass"
# ...
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 2"
# ...
EndSection
Changing the ...
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Nemo file manager: How can I change font color of folder names in toolbar button?
How can I change font color of folder names in the toolbar button in Nemo file manager?
Because I strongly prefer Ambiance theme, I want to keep it, but it messes up the theme of Nemo which is my ...
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Why can I not see the whole window?
I have the following problem:
my Lenovo ideapad S10e runs on Ubuntu 12.04 and everytime I open a window it doesn' show it entirely. Meaning: the buttons on the bottom are out of the displays range (I ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Mouse buttons not responding (events do not fire correctly)
After I start Ubuntu my mouse buttons don’t work in applications. When I use the left and right mouse button in the Ubuntu interface they work fine. But when I try to use them inside an application (...
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I don't have an xorg.conf
I'm trying to set up my extra mouse buttons but there is no xorg.conf in the etc/X11/ directory. Is there something I have to do to create it? I haven't used Ubuntu for a while.
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Brightness buttons are not working at all
I have asked this question multiple times. i have an acer 5750 laptop running Ubuntu 13.04 and all of a sudden then brightness buttons wont adjust the computers brightness. it was working not too long ...
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Cyborg M.M.O.7 Mouse Extra Buttons - No 11-mouse.conf
I have a Cyborg M.M.O.7 mouse with quite a few extra buttons, and I'd like to be able to bind them to things. I've found a post here that seems to detail the process, but when I attempted to carry out ...
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Are there any ways to make a key on the keyboard act as 2 keys?
I have the "RightClick" (menu) button on my keyboard, which is completely useless.
I want to remap the keyboard such that whenever I press this button, it simulates an "UP ARROW" then after 0.1 ...
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ATI Driver installer screen missing nearly all text, how do I resolve this?
I am using 64-Bit Ubuntu 12.10 On a Dell 7520, intel core i5 3210, ati 7730m, 4gb DDR3
I downloaded ATI catalyst software driver for linux (amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run), but ...
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binding back/forward to mouse buttons
I have a basic logitech mouse with 5 buttons: left, right, wheel left, wheel, wheel right.
I used to use wheel left and right for going back and forward in my browser or navigator. Now this doesn't ...
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Why is the middle button mapped to pasting?
I'm in love with Ubuntu, but I really HATE this feature. I am a programmer and it happened a number of times that I introduced a bug because I inadvertently pasted some code which didn't belong there. ...
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Configure buttons on Logitech M705 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I assign actions to all my mouse buttons?
I would like change the extra button functionality. I want change the Back/Forward button to Sound up/Sound down.
It is ...
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Reassign the Right button functionality of touchpad
My notebook has a touchpad with two buttons.
The touchpad works pretty well and I use it for vertical/horizontal scroll, two fingers scrolling etc. The Left button acts like the left button of a ...
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How to get mouse buttons to work
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 x64 on my HP windows 7 computer. After installation and login it brings me to the desk top. All I'm able to do is move my mouse pointer around. Clicking the left or ...
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Buttons in nautilus to toggle sidebar and view
Is there a way to add buttons to Nautilus? I really would like to have a small button on the sidebar allowing to quickly switch between tree view and places view.
Also I would love to have buttons to ...
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How do I prevent KDE from messing up my Qt dialog button order?
I use mostly GTK+ applications (eg. Geeqie, Audacious, etc.) on Lubuntu. However, I decided to give KDE 4 a try by installing kubuntu-desktop and then removing the apps I didn't want.
Big mistake. ...
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Media buttons on keyboard with spotify
I've added spotify preview as my defualt music program, by doing this.
As doug suggested, simply add this line to your >~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file in two places, like so:
[...
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How to add Shutdown button to LXPanel and make it work?
I cannot seem to be able to add a shutdown button to my LXPanel. In /usr/share/applications there is a Shutdown (lubuntu-logout.desktop) containing the line Exec=lubuntu-logout but it would not run.
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Mouse button to raise+move a window
I used to be able to use Super+Mouse1 both to move a window and to raise the window on click. When I upgraded to 12.04 gnome-panel, it lost this functionality and I was forced to map F1 to raise a ...
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sudo shutdown vs pressing power button
I have a headless Ubuntu server running 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 server edition, and I connect to the server via SSH from my Windows laptop.
Sometimes when I would like to turn off the server and my ...
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How to select or deselect radio button in python / glade
As in topic, how can I select or deselect radio buttons in python.
The application is made by quickly.
any help pleas ?
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GTK2.0 Theme problem with button foreground
I have noticed that i can only change the foreground color of a gtk2.0 theme button with the "default" style.
I did it like:
style "default" {
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
fg[PRELIGHT] ...
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Window buttons have suddenly changed to the right side
I'm using updated Ubuntu 12.04 64b with unity, and im having some problems with the window managing buttons and themes. Everything was fine until this week when i rebooted the system and when it ...
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How to add button to Nautilus toolbar in Ubuntu 12.04?
How do I add bottons to Nautilus toolbar, such as delete, new folder, cut, paste, etc.
In Ubuntu 11.04 I did that by editing the file "/usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-navigation-window-ui.xml", but ...
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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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ubuntu button missing on desktop
I installed ubuntu 12.04 from scratch and I'm missing the ubuntu button , so I can not go into system -> users and groups for instance.
What could be the problem. I installed it on 2 netbooks , and ...
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Make LibreOffice A single button that when clicked offers choices and what type of document to open
I know that I've done this on a previous install of Ubuntu, but for the life of me, I can't find it. Basically I want the options like when you right click LibreOffice Writer and the New Document ...