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.
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Wired keyboard and mouse not working anymore
I recently upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 and other than TwinView problems it seemed to be working. While trying to fix the TwinView issues, I rebooted the computer and the keyboard and mouse no longer ...
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Enabling middle click for pointer stick buttons
I'm running a freshly-installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell Latitude D630 laptop. I generally use the pointer stick/eraser head to move the pointer around the screen, and the corresponding buttons to ...
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Touchpad works on a Dell Inspiron M5030 but external mouse moves slow
I have 12.04 32-bit installed in my M5030 Dell Inspiron. It has a AMD Turion™ II processor, an ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD4250, and 3GB in RAM.
I also had 11.10 and had the same problem. The Touchpad is ...
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How can I make Ubuntu mouse sensitivity exactly the same as in Windows?
I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu. I'm a heavy gamer of Counter Strike and mouse sensitivity is very important. Is there any way of perfectly replicating Windows mouse sensitivity settings?
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Mouse issue in Wine
I'm trying to run a FPS game on wine called Vicinity but once the game starts, I can't move the mouse and when I go to the menu the mouse works (in the menu only).
I searched but I didn't find a ...
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Can not move anything in Ubuntu 12.04
This is quite annoying. For some reason I can not hold anything with my mouse.
For example.
I can not drag a window by holding its title bar.
I can not move the scroll bar of any window by mouse.
I ...
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x11 mouse themes not showing on desktop (unity) [duplicate]
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How do I install and select cursor themes?
Hi I have install a few different themes for the mouse cursor. They work well except on the desktop, taskbar or unity launcher where ...
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Configure mouse speed (not pointer acceleration!)
Is there way to increase the mouse speed in KDE4? I don't want any pointer acceleration, it's just the mouse speed that I want to change.
Edit: Unfortunately, editing the xorg.conf is not an option ...
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Why my wireless mouse doesn't work in Ubuntu
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop but my wireless mouse is not working on it.
I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop but my mouse is working properly on it. my mouse is 2.4 GH Generous
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OrthoMouse doesn't work in ubuntu 12.04
I have a OrthoMouse for carpal tunnel and the mouse pointer doesn't move at all. The buttons (right, left, wheel) work fine but i can't move the pointer. The mouse works fine in windows. I have a ...
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Boot Repair forced Ubuntu to load Unity2D and the mouse cursor freezed
I am a GRUB noob and I would appreciate if you could help me with my issues.
I want to install several GNU/Linux Distros but I broke GRUB so I used boot-repair to fix it.
I wanted to have a separated ...
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How do i apply this patch/fix?
I need to fix this problem i have with my mouse when playing games and i don't know how to apply this patch. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=...
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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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How do I get the extra side buttons on my Intellimouse Explorer working?
How do I get the extra side buttons (6 and 7) on my Intellimouse Explorer working?
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Kubuntu 12.04 keyboard + mouse do not respond
I just installed Kubuntu 12.04 amd-64. When I login the mouse, moves but the clicks appear to be random (some are accepted and some are not) and the same happens with the keystrokes. This makes the ...
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How to get cursor click effect?
I've seen videos like this one in which a effect appears when the user made a click. What I want it's just the effect only, I don't care the colour of the cursor.
How can I make this effect when I do ...
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All drivers disabled after reinstallation
I've been running Ubuntu 12.04 for quite a while, but after installing Windows XP onto another partition, the MBR was overwritten, etc etc.
I downgraded 12.04 to 11.10 using a Live CD, but it still ...
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Dual Monitor & cursor
I'm running ubuntu 12.04 with dual monitor set up. I'm running unity with launcher only on my primary monitor with the auto hide option disabled. So my launcher appears on my primary monitor forever. ...
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How to configure the left mouse click to select only part of directory in terminal?
When I double click /This/is/a/directory it selects the whole string. It should only select the word I click. eg. if I double-click "This" then only "This" is selected.
This is how Ubuntu used to ...
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Mouse scroll not working on Oracle VirtualBox
I have Windows7x64 and Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.18 installed on it.I installed Ubuntu 12.04x64 and when I use it, mouse scrolling(Logitech M175) is not working. What I should do to make it work?
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In Ubuntu 12.04 my mouse moves automatically, how can i stop it?
As I said in the question's topic, recently my laptop's touchpad mouse moves the pointer automatically, I also have installed Windows, but in there i don't have this problem!
how can i fix this?
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Extra Mouse button assigned to Super-W short cut
I have assigned my middle click mouse button to the shortcut Super-W in Ubuntu 10.04, now I need to change this binding, but I can not remember how I did it...
I've not used Btnx,xbindkeys, this are ...
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How do invert my touchpad's orientation?
I am looking to completely reverse the orientation of an external touchpad (Logitech Wireless Touchpad). This is not just inverting the scrolling: I want to turn it "upside-down" with the click ...
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Logitech G700 mouse scrollwheel is way too sensitive, how can I configure it?
I am trying to migrate my brother to use Ubuntu.
However, his Logitech G700 mouse's scroll wheel is extremely sensitive.
By sensitive, I mean that, due to the fact that it uses high-resolution ...
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Map Ctrl and Alt to mouse thumb buttons
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and have a multi-button Microsoft mouse. I would like to map the Ctrl and Alt modifier keys to the left and right thumb buttons of my mouse, respectively, so I can Ctrl + ...
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Wireless mouse temporarily freezes (sleeps) on battery power
I have been getting a very annoying problem since recently in Ubuntu 12.04, probably due to another update that did more bad than good...
When I resume from sleep on battery power my Lenovo Thinkpad ...
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How do I enable Middle mouse button emulation in 12.04 LTS?
How do I enable Middle mouse button emulation in 12.04 LTS?
I think it was disabled by default in the last release. I'm sure this is a silly question but I can't find a generic answer, they all seem ...
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Mouse and keyboard focus problem
I have two Chrome windows side by side. I click a link in window#1, ok. Now I want to switch to window#2 and click anywhere in the window.
Noting happens. Sometimes the cursor switch to make-bigger-...
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how to re-enable trackpad accidentally disabled it using third party software(Jupiter)
Im an ubuntu noob, I accidentally disabled my trackpad using the Jupiter power management software, but cant seem to be able to re-enable it. Tried rebooting the system to no avail. Any ideas on how ...
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How to hide the mouse cursor
I'm building a kiosk using Ubuntu Precise on a touch screen. Now I'm looking for the appropriate way to make the mouse cursor disappear. As people know where they are pointing, displaying an arrow ...
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Why doesn't my mouse work in Gnome-shell at 30-bit color depth?
Title pretty much says it. Keyboard shortcuts are fine. But the mouse interaction, Clicking on anything but desktop icons is... not happening.
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regain control of mouse by restarting Xorg?
Lately whilst browsing the web the mouse will "hold down left click" and not let go -- i.e. I get a closed hand icon that can move around but doesn't interact with the screen. Restarting the OS solves ...
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Unable to click in Windows install of 12.04
I just installed ubuntu 12.04 through windows in order to try it out. My mouse can move (real choppy at first, but smooths out) but can never click. Keyboard also unresponsive. Both are wireless, usb ...
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Can't Click After Login on Ubuntu 12.04
Since I upgraded to 12.04 in April, I have had mouse issues.
When I first log in, my mouse works fine (i.e. I can click and launch an application, or click-and-drag on the desktop).
After I launch an ...
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Syanptics Touchpad Won't Re-enable
I disabled my Synaptics touchpad while a key on my keyboard and now I can't get it to work again. When I press that key again it says the touchpad turns back on but will not work at all. Rebooting ...
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How to make a sound effect play whenever I click?
I know that sounds like a weird idea, but I kinda want to experiment with this.
Over the past few months, I've kinda turned Ubuntu into my own little Frankenstein's monster, but whatever you tell me ...
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How to enable mouse wheel in virtualbox?
I've installed on my host ubuntu 10.04 in virtualbox guest operating system ubuntu 12.04. And mouse wheel doesn't scroll vertically the contents of a window. In host works normally.
VirtualBox mouse ...
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How to fix laggy mouse and keyboard on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit?
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit on my i5-2400 system, and I'm experiencing very laggy keyboard and mouse input.
I have to type really slowly or I some keys will not get registered. Also, ...
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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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Mouse and keyboard don't work
I'm pretty new to Ubuntu. I'm coming from a Slackware background.
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04_64 LTS on Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop.
For some reason, though, the mouse and keyboard don't work what so ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 desktop freezes, or rather the mouse recognition
I have a problem. The Ubuntu desktop freezes in a way, that I can still type, do everything on the keyboard but the mouse doesn't work. I can move it around but it doesn't highlight anything in the ...
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Sloppy focus not working after upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04
I used sloppy focus in the previous version. Where focus would change from window to window on mouse over, but would not raise any window unless clicked.
I used this a lot when having two windows and ...
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How do I swap mouse buttons to be left handed from the terminal?
I am left handed person.
Therefore I want to interchange the typical mouse buttons for right and left clicks.
I want to do this via terminal. May someone please suggest the command for it?
Is it ...
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Can I trigger a mouse double click, by holding down the primary button, after a delay?
Can I change setting so that the the mouse double-clicks by holding down the primary mouse button? I do not want hover-click.
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Can't hold left button on touchpad and drag in 12.04 and no right click
After updating to 12.04, I cannot use the mouse buttons. I have a work around to be able to drag with the touchpad alone, also to use the touchpad for right click. I would however like to use the ...
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Drag and drop in Nautilus sometimes does not work
I split nautilus window, open different folders in each part and then drag a file from folder on the left to the folder on the right in order to move it. Usually this works ok, but sometimes drag is ...
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Adjust mouse keys in 12.04?
I checked under keyboard and there is no option to adjust "Mouse Keys". I turned it on under "Universal Access", but there was no option to adjust sensitivity or acceleration there. Under "Mouse and ...
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Mouse cursor limits using newrez script
I'm using the newrez script on my netbook.
This script seems to draw an image to display with a wider resolution and then resides it to make it fit to my screen using Xrandr. This way i can have a ...
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System freeze after adding noapic acpi=noirq nolapic
I have an issues on which your expert knowledge is required so that I can solve it, here is the scenario:
[Problem was] Sticky mouse after installation!
To solve this issues I did following ...
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How do I setup pointer-keys/mouse-keys in Lubuntu? (move cursor with num-pad keys)
I know there is an easy way to set up mouse emulation with the numpad in Xubuntu and Ubuntu. Is there an easy way to do so in lubuntu? is there a config file that can be edited, or does a program need ...
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