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.
3,568
questions
0
votes
0
answers
18
views
Mouse movements not registering on Ubuntu laptop with new mouse (Thinkpad E590)
recently purchased a new mouse that works perfectly on my Mac, but when I plug it into my Ubuntu laptop (E590 ThinkPad), the computer doesn't seem to register any mouse movements. The right click and ...
0
votes
0
answers
29
views
I have to periodically `modprobe -r psmouse && modprobe psmouse` to get my touchpad buttons to work again
I'm not really sure how to go about finding the real root-cause of this issue, but more than occasionally, my touchpad buttons stop functioning on my ThinkPad running Ubuntu. I'm able to get them ...
- 111
0
votes
0
answers
13
views
Ubuntu Studio updated and now my mouse buttons don't work
I was trying Linux for the first time in 2021 (dual boot on two hard drives), found Ubuntu Studio, which seemed perfect for my music and graphics work. I never had the computer online until just ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
23
views
No mouse and keyboard input after updated to 20.04
I was on Ubuntu 18.04. I decided to update to 22.04 today using update-manager-core. The updater won't let me upgrade to 22.04 so I upgrade to 20.04 instead.
I found that I lost both keyboard and ...
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
12
views
CPS cap, Minecraft 1.8 pvp unplayable (ubuntu 22.04)
How do I remove Linux's CPS (clicks per second) cap? Btw, using Bloody A60 and A70. So with this CPS cap (10-12 CPS) when I click 40 CPS on Windows, on Ubuntu, it's 10 CPS. How do I fix it? I tried a ...
1
vote
1
answer
38
views
Strange Mouse Problem - Clicks not registered middle top of screen
There is a region on my screen, about 25% of the width and 25% of the height, aligned middle top. It does not register any mouse clicks. Mouse clicks work fine everywhere else. The mouse pointer ...
- 155
1
vote
0
answers
16
views
Middle mouse paste in jupyter through firefox on linux
I am running sagemath 9.8 installed from source containing jupyter_core 4.11.2 and jupyter_client 7.4.4. I access the sagemath notebook with it's jupyter instance in firefox 116.0.2 on an Ubuntu 22.04 ...
- 159
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
Cursor disappears using Dual Monitors over windows set to Always Visible
I use a laptop, so I don't always have two displays. My mouse disappears when I have both monitors displaying and a window in "Always Visible" mode on the built-in laptop display. Often, ...
- 386
-1
votes
0
answers
16
views
Two finger pinch pinchout not working in ubuntu ， how to fix it
After installed touchegg and some software libinput-gestures， I find the two finger pinch pinchout in my laptop trackpad, not workinganymore, I tried to remove the touchegg and libinput-gesture, but ...
- 125
2
votes
0
answers
31
views
Wireless Logitech mouse scrolls 0 or 2 times in ratchet mode
I have observed a weird scrolling issue with two Logitech mice (MX Master 3 and Marathon M705): After some time in ratchet mode, scrolling one step up or down is sometimes registered as 0 or 2 steps (...
- 121
0
votes
0
answers
47
views
Bluetooth manager and bluetoothctl can't find one specific bluetooth device. Working in Dual Boot with windows, which can finde the device
I have a dual boot system with windows 10 pro and Ubuntu 20.04.
Last year I got a bluetooth mouse 3600. Since every time I changed the OS I had to pair the mouse, so I tried to get the key from Ubuntu ...
0
votes
0
answers
27
views
Password field in lock screen loses focus
Sometimes when I wake up the computer after suspend, I notice that the password field loses focus while I am typing the password. I am unable to move the focus by pressing tab. The only way is to use ...
- 13
0
votes
0
answers
38
views
Network Card "UNCLAIMED", no USB mouse and not able to connect Android phone
I have googled and looked on here for answers to this problem and it seems quite common, but so far none of the solutions have worked for me.
This seemed to start after an upgrade and seems from ...
- 21
0
votes
0
answers
17
views
22.04 mouse drag-and-drop select text not working
In 20.04 mouse drag selected texts to another application. For instance mark a text of Chromium translation and drag it with the held left bottom and releace/drop it to a gedit text file.
In 22.04 ...
- 21
0
votes
0
answers
18
views
USB devices including Android phone stopped working
This is odd. I noticed my Android phone wouldn't work (share files, charging was fine). Then suddenly the network stopped working. I have been away for a few weeks and returned a couple of days ago. ...
- 21
0
votes
0
answers
19
views
Iron Claw mouse supprt
Good day Everyone,
I need help with getting my Corsair Ironclaw mouse to be fully functional on my ubuntu laptop, The R/L click buttons work as well as the DPI buttons but the rest do nothing ...
- 1
1
vote
0
answers
26
views
How to set the cursor location in a Gnome Shell Extension?
I'm trying to set my first steps in a Gnome Extension to help visually impaired people to find the cursor by moving to it a fixed location.
As it seems there is no easy way to do this.
I have a hacked ...
- 5,529
0
votes
0
answers
40
views
How to calibrate my mouse, Ubuntu is now unusable
When just started Ubuntu, the mouse is not accurate anymore. To find out what is the difference, I started OpenOffice Draw, an started to draw a line. The is 70 mm difference between my mouse and ...
- 461
0
votes
0
answers
13
views
Mouse Movement via MotionSource (DSU)
I wish to control my mouse via my mobile's gyro, sideways. I was able to send motion like that using the android app called MotionSource which emits DSU input, and I am able to connect to games and ...
0
votes
0
answers
56
views
Logitech Unifying Receiver causes mouse pointer freeze Ubuntu 22.04
I have used Logitech Unifying Receivers on 2 laptops for several years. Until a few weeks ago they have worked fine. Since then both computers exhibit the same behaviour when the Receiver is plugged ...
0
votes
0
answers
25
views
Why my mouse and keyboard doesn't work once I unplug the charger from my laptop?
I have Ubuntu 22.4 on an Asus MA515DA with 8 GB of RAM and a VEGA 8. I bought it a year ago and, as soon as I got home, I installed Ubuntu. Since back then, once I unpluged or pluged the charger, any ...
0
votes
0
answers
57
views
Cant drag/move (non-snap-installed) window using touchscreen
I've got Ubuntu 23.04 on my Surface Go 2. And I can mostly use my touchscreen just fine. But when trying to drag/move windows of apps, that I didn't install using snap-store like Firefox Dev. and ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
24
views
Contour Design Unimouse Button Not Recognized on Linux (xev, xinput ,evtest)
I use the Contour Design Unimouse on my Linux setup (Ubuntu) and I am encountering an issue. While most of the mouse's functions work as expected, the middle button (which is not the scroll button, ...
0
votes
0
answers
53
views
libinput randomly misses mouse scroll events
Randomly maybe 1 out of 50, a few ticks of the mouse scroll is not working. The next ones work fine.
I'm using Ubuntu with Wayland.
▶ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-11.1.0ubuntu4-noarch:security-...
- 201
0
votes
0
answers
214
views
Logitech MX Master 3S Mouse scroll wheel not working after Ubuntu update
I'm currently running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. The other day I was prompted to update my system (I'm assuming migrating from 22.04.2 to 22.04.3). Now the scroll-wheel on my mouse doesn't work.
I have a ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
20
views
Right click acting like the left click
After updating my Ubuntu to version 22.04, I noticed that the right-click is behaving like the left-click. For example, when I try to open the context menu by right-clicking on a file, it instead ...
0
votes
1
answer
131
views
Ubuntu 22.04 usb not working (when running on battery)
This is an extension of my earlier question. There I thought tlp was the culprit and stopped the service and it worked. But when I try to run my laptop on battery, again USB devices are not working. ...
0
votes
0
answers
15
views
Wacom tablet clicks don't land where the cursor is in some apps
I have a Wacom Intuos Pro 4 and Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, and there seems to be a problem with the way some applications deal with clicks. The click co-ordinates seem to be scaled wrongly, so the click ...
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
218
views
laptop & keyboard and mosuepad dosn't work on Lenovo V15 G4 AMN - Type 82YU
I have bought a Laptop and installed ubuntu but my keybord and trackpad dosn't work.
if i plug an external keyboard or mouse does work.
my laptop model is Lenovo V15 G4 AMN - Type 82YU.
i am running ...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
186
views
USB keyboard and mouse dont work after upgrade to 22.04
Today I upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04. There were no errors in upgrade process and rebooted.
When I logged into Ubuntu I can insert my password to gnome using my usb-keyboard and mouse pointer also ...
0
votes
0
answers
19
views
Mouse pointer moving only in 8 directions
I am dual-booting Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. On Windows, mouse works perfectly fine, but on Ubuntu it can move only 8 directions: up, down, left, right and corners.
For example, if I move the ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
22
views
Pushing back a window pushes it "under the desktop" (it is still visible, but clicks on that window fail). Is that a known bug or a setting?
I seem to have a weird one on one of my VirtualBox installation.
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 a while back (fresh, not an upgrade) and I have been running on there nicely for a while. Then I upgraded to ...
- 2,632
0
votes
1
answer
90
views
How to get smooth scroll with Logitech mouse at 22.04
Is there any way to achieve smooth scrolling with Ubuntu 22.04+Logtech mouse?
When using Ubuntu 20.04, I was able to achieve smooth scrolling using the method on the website here.
However, it doesn't ...
0
votes
0
answers
28
views
Keyboard and mouse stop working in Ubuntu, can only do REISUB
I was using Ubuntu 23.04 on my Lenovo Legion Laptop (AMD 5600H + RTX3060) and was in tty when the computer suddenly stopped responding to any keyboard input. I thought the system has frozen and used ...
- 21
0
votes
0
answers
29
views
The mouse is not working on window, but works perfectly fine in the ubuntu
I am very new to Linux, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS yesterday, and now after successfully dual boot the system, the mouse is not working in my window but it works perfectly fine in Ubuntu. I seek ...
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
36
views
Ubuntu Pavilion 15 bluetooth doesnt detect mouse Logitech
I just buy a new computer HP Pavilion 15 eg3018ns its seen that is coming with a mediatek WIFI/Bluetooth card.
I just install Ubuntu 22.04.02,in the windows partition everything works fine, but Ubuntu ...
0
votes
0
answers
29
views
Second HDMI monitor only refreshes on mouse input
I just installed Ubuntu 23.04 on my XMG Core 15. I also have a HDMI TV which I use as external monitor (it works well under Windows and Mac, so the monitor doesnt seem to be the issue).
Whenever I do ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
87
views
Cursor lag jumping between touchpad and wireless mouse in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 on a HP Laptop 15s-eq0xxx laptop, with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700u processor, and 16 GB of memory.
Recently the touchpad showed lag and sometimes became fully unresponsive at the same ...
0
votes
0
answers
26
views
mouse (not keyboard) sharing with barrier between Ubuntu and windows
I'm using barrier to share mouse and keyboard between several machines with Ubuntu and windows os.
I'm looking for a possibility to share the mouse only, but not the keyboard. Is this possible with ...
- 19
0
votes
0
answers
16
views
Machine does not power up with keyboard or [wireless] mouse movement
This machine s Lenovo Desktop H535 Logitech K360 with wireless mouse.
- 43
0
votes
0
answers
70
views
Touchpad two finger drag as middle click drag
I'm using an apple magic trackpad 2 on a fresh install, everything works great gestures and all.
However in Blender behavior is quite different, two fingers zooms in and out when it should orbit the ...
0
votes
0
answers
25
views
All tabs/windows in MOST apps are scrolling to the bottom or right
Can someone please tell me why most of all my apps automatically scrolling to the right or bottom so I can only view the last page or window or tab. I've changed my mouse and keyboard (wired). For ...
- 11
0
votes
0
answers
32
views
Polychromatic Error: Wrong Qt Library Version (Ubuntu 22.04)
I got a new Razer mouse, and I'm trying to use Polychromatic to alter colors/DPI. I installed openrazer and Polychromatic as specified on their websites for Ubuntu 22.04, but when I run polychromatic-...
- 43
0
votes
0
answers
33
views
Terminator: disable middle click closing the tabs
I want to stop Terminator (Ubuntu-22.04) to close the current tab if i middle click on the tab title. I often close the tabs accidentally when there is a process running in the current tab.
I am using ...
- 21
0
votes
1
answer
143
views
How do I configure a gaming mouse in Ubuntu?
I bought a Elecom Huge trackball and I'm trying to configure the extra buttons to work with Rimworld on Steam. Steam only has remedial mouse support AFAIK and Ubuntu does not seem to have a gaming ...
- 575
1
vote
0
answers
102
views
Ubuntu on Lenovo Flex 5 Ideapad 14are05 won't recognize touch pad
This issue has appeared a lot and I've tried almost every fix from modifying the grub file to patching the kernel to uninstalling certain drivers. None of them have worked. I started with Ubuntu 22.04....
- 11
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
Plasma recognizes Corsair mouse as Game Controller - how to utilize additional buttons?
I have a CORSAIR KATAR PRO Wireless mouse running via USB dongle and in the system settings its recognized as a game controller. The additional buttons on the mouse are also recognized (screenshot: ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
30
views
Screen (not OS) freezes unless I move the mouse
I have a Lenovo Legion laptop and an LG monitor plugged to it through HDMI. The screen image freezes until I move the mouse. It is not the system that is freezing, just the image. For instance, when ...
2
votes
2
answers
603
views
Touchpad pinch zoom not functional in ubuntu 22.04
I am using ubuntu 22.04LTS and I am facing issue with touchpad functionalities. The two-finger zoom in zoom out pinch moving left-right is not working. First i thought its just problem with chrome ...
0
votes
0
answers
40
views
Cannot scroll terminal window when in vi
With terminal settings
Default/Layout/Screen Buffer Size/Height = 9999
Properties/Layout/Screen Buffer Size/Height = 9999
I can scroll in the window using the mouse wheel.
Now I enter vi (a ...
- 101