Questions tagged [multi-touch]
Questions about Ubuntu's multi-touch features.
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libinput and xev don't detect 3 or 4 fingers
I want to use fusuma or libinput-gestures which requires libinput but it is not working
Things I tried:
Copied a working installation and configuration from my other laptop, but they are not working ...
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how to fix touchpad ubuntu
I have a ZenBook UX363EA_UX363EA with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.
I was developing an app for linux and I was implementing mouse and touchpad event handler.
since then I'm having issues with my touch pad and ...
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AlpsPS/2 touchpad Two-finger scrolling doesn't work in ubuntu 22.04
I'd rather use Wayland in this Dell Studio 1537 laptop.
In both Wayland and Xorg scrolling with windows scroll bars work fine (double tap plus 1 finger slide) as intended.
In Wayland, when setting is ...
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three finger gestures (swipe up and down) doesn't work in ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Please help me!! I searched everywhere but this problem seems to be only mine! I can't use three fingers swipe up gesture for multi-tasking in any linux distros with gnome desktop. It works in windows ...
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Touchpad - tapping highlights or drags - Ubuntu 22.04.1 on Lenovo Yoga laptop
New to Linux/Ubuntu so apologies if I'm making any silly errors.
I'm wondering how I can make taps with the touchpad stop highlighting text or dragging text & windows. I get how this could be ...
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How to install touchscreen on Acer Spin SP314-53N?
I'm requesting instructions to install the ability to use the touchscreen and screen keyboard for the Acer Spin SP314-53N.
After installing Ubuntu, I could no longer use the touchscreen.
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Switch between open windows (not workspaces) with 3 finger swipe - Ubuntu 22.04
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, and all multitouch gestures work well.
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I'm looking for an option to switch between windows by swiping 3 fingers left/right. Basically, to activate the alt+tab or the super+...
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Pinch zoom of an external usb touchpad cannot be disabled on Firefox
I have an external usb touchpad connected to a laptop. I want to remove the pinch zoom gesture while I am on Mozilla Firefox.
Inside about:config, I set apz.gtk.touchpad_pinch.enabled False; after ...
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Thinkpad X1 Yoga with Ubuntu 20.04 touchpad suddenly requires additional finger for every action (point, tap, scroll)
so I'm working on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga (Gen 6) with Ubuntu 20.04 installed and my touchpad is suddenly and without discernible reason requiring me to use an additional finger for every action:
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How to enable multitouch in Ubuntu 22.04 running on a tablet?
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 armhf version (for Raspberry Pi) in a Surface RT (*).
Is there any way to force Ubuntu use multitouch? Right now, Ubuntu seems to be considering multitouch events multiple ...
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Avoiding Desktop Access (Gestures and others)
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with a touch panel to display an analytical instrument.
I want to disable swiping gesture at the left corner that allows users to access the desktop.
It would be great if I ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 trackpad gestures not working after installing Nvidia drivers
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and installed the Nvidia drivers recommended for the graphics card (GTX 1650). After the reboot, the trackpad cannot detect multi-finger touch gestures. I have ...
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3 finger swipe up broken on Wayland and 22.04 LTS
I've found that since upgrading to 22.04, the 3 finger swipe up to show the overview is broken.3 finger swipe left and right to change workspaces works fine, and 3 finger swipe down to show overview ...
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Touchpad Gesture Sensitivity (22.04)
I've been using Ubuntu 22.04, for the past few months now, and I discovered touchpad gestures a little while ago, and I love it, can't live without them. But the problem is that the gestures are wayy ...
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Fixing conflicting gestures between libinput and libinput-gestures
Not sure if this question has been asked before but any direction would be appreciated!
Release:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
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Ubuntu 22.04 How to disable two finger scrolling completely
I am really struggling with Ubuntu22.04 upgrade and my synaptics touchpad on Acer Aspire E15 (E5-574G-54Y2) laptop. Everything was working just great before the 22.04 upgrade but now, the touchpad ...
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2-finger touchscreen scroll in terminal
On my 2-in-1 laptop, I want to be able to scroll in my terminal using 2-finger scrolling on the touchscreen (not touchpad). I'm currently using URXVT (+tmux), is it possible to get this to work in ...
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Slow gesture sensitivity
I have recently installed X11 gestures gnome shell extension that is running along with touchegg but the gesture sensitivity is too slow. It is becoming a pain to switch between the workspaces with 3 ...
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Fusuma 4-finger gestures not working
I'm trying to use fusuma 4 finger gesture to minimize windows and change between them.
I edited the config.yml file and checked in the terminal, running fusuma command, if gestures were being ...
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Only Click When Finger Touching Touchpad?
Since I use 2 daily driver OSs (Linux & MacOS), I realized that, on MacOS, when you press down on the touchpad with your finger, it clicks on the button (or whatever you're hovering over), but if ...
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Precise scrolling & pinch to zoom broken in Firefox on 22.04 after working on 21.10
How do I enable precise scrolling and pinch to zoom in Firefox? I just put the default installation of the latest LTS on my laptop yesterday, and precise scrolling in Firefox is broken (two finger ...
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Disable middle click with Wayland
I switched my ubuntu from 21.10 impish to 22.04 jammy which implied to leave x11 for wayland.
I prevented unsolicited selection paste or unwanted closed tabs by completely disabling middle click with ...
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How to disable swiping with 3 fingers from popping up a Virtual Desktop configuration window?
On a fresh Xubuntu 20.04 LTS installation with Chicago95, I've created 4 virtual desktops. When I swipe across my laptop trackpad with 3 fingers, a window for configuring my Workspaces shows up, ...
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Ubuntu 21.10 - Touchpad three finger gestures stopped working
This morning, I started ubuntu (installed alongside windows 11) and 3-finger gestures weren't working and the display feel laggy.
I had installed Nvidia cuda, I checked the recent installation in /var/...
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Three finger tap delay on touchpad
When trying to make use of a three finger tap to perform the equivalent of a mouse middle click on my laptop's touch pad, I notice a delay in the action in being executed. I use it mostly for opening ...
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Touchpad is not behaving as it used to be in Ubuntu
Touchpad is not behaving as it used to be, at least not to what I've been accustomed to.
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
boot either kubuntu or lubuntu Live-CD 20.04 and
use the touchpad after GUI ...
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Restoring touch functionality for a touchscreen laptop?
I just installed Ubuntu with KDE on Latitude 5289, it's a Dell laptop that normally has some pretty nifty touchscreen functionality. For example, on Windows, this machine would be able to scroll up ...
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Disabling Wayland / Gnome touch gestures for touch monitor (or entirely)
Has anyone figured out how to disable touch gestures in Gnome when using Wayland? I am used to X11 where I can use full 10-finger multi-touch in Bitwig Studio (a great audio recording tool, for those ...
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Disable touchpad upper left corner
On my Thinkpad L13 with Elantech Touchpad running Ubuntu 20.04 I want to disable upper left corner of touchpad to avoid double contact when I click or keep my finger on the left mouse button and at ...
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How to completely disable 3 finger tap by any means in libinput
What I want is to be able to just disable 3 finger tap because I never use it and it also messes up what code I write. I use libinput and synclient is not an option. I also use X11 instead of Wayland. ...
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Right click and middle button click swaped
I've just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and the right click is not working in the right way. If I tap with two fingers on the touchpad the system reads a middle button click. But if I tap with 3 fingers the ...
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How to adjust Trackpad "Tap Sensitivity" without adjusting mouse speed
Im on Ubuntu 20, GNome Desktop. The touchpad on my Dell Precision 5550 is huge and just way to sensitive causing lots of undesired effects while typing.
I'd like to keep my "Touchpad Speed" ...
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Libinput: Two touches released but jus one event "TOUCH_UP"
I'm working in a project using wxWidgets and a RaspberryPi 3 model A+.
It uses a CTPM FT5406 touch screen for the application.
The problem is: When i touch in both the extremity of the screen, the ...
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Disabling Multi Touch Gestures in Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Desktop
I am Using a Critical Application which needs to be on the screen all the time , and user should not be able to logoff or should not be able to acess any other Application , The Device is equipped ...
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After upgrade to 18.04: extended text selection in Unity lost
In Ubuntu 16.04 (using Unity), I have been able to perform the following action:
I was able to mark parts of a text with pressing and moving one finger on the touch-pad.
Quite often, I haven't been ...
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Does 20.04 support multi-touch gestures out of the box?
I don't have a touch display so am asking this question to see if it's worth purchasing one and also would like to know if there is any specialized setup required to get a multi-touch gesture display ...
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Touchpad bugs: 2 fingers scroll stops working, sensitivity increases, cursor moving on its own after a move
On Ubuntu 20.04, my Touchpad is having weird bugs that start at random moments that I couldn't link to any special activity. It seems to just start randomly.
Here are the different effects that I can ...
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Is there anything to read and hand-annotate a pdf like on paper on a touchscreen with stylus?
I have a DELL touchscreen convertible and I would like to be able to read, but also annotate with a stylo like I am used on paper, a pdf, so to say bye bye to paper.
I can't find any PDF reader ...
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Can' t make touchegg work on KDE
I'm on a fresh install with KDE and just installed touchegg, but I don't seem to be able to make it work. I followed the installation instructions and copied the default config file but nothing ...
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How to install Ubuntu 20.10 on the new XPS 17 (9700)?
I saw a few posts online of people having some issues setting up the new XPS 17 as a Linux machine so I thought I'd share my journey here in case it'd be of anyone's interest. I've been using Ubuntu ...
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MacBook Pro trackpad: Must lift all fingers before tap
With the trackpad on my 2013 MacBook Pro using macOS, I use my middle finger for navigation and forefinger to tap. In this scenario, it is unnecessary for me to lift my middle finger to tap.
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Mac OS X-like and gestures in Ubuntu
Anyone knows of a solution which exists in order to have Mac OS X like gestures in Ubuntu?
Something extremely close to this is being developed for the next version of Elementary OS:
https://blog....
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How to tune the touchpad?
My machine is lenovo yoga s730 on Ubuntu 20.04. I have several problems with my touchpad. Firstly, it's active while typing. Even though there is 'disable while typing' option in the settings, it does ...
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How do I move mouse's arrow with 1 index finger on topside of touchpad while other index finger touches left bottom area of the touchpad?
How do I move the pointer around with one index finger on the topside of the touchpad while my other index finger is static and touching the left bottom side of the touchpad?
I can do this in Windows ...
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Fusuma gestures not executed
I run fusuma on startup but it doesn't seem to work most of the times.
If I open a terminal and run fusuma and do the mouse pad gestures the terminal shows that the gestures are recognized but not ...
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Touchpad features, like right click and scrolling with two fingers not working
Hello everybody Am new to ubuntu linux and i have ubuntu 20.04 and before this i was using windows 10. In windows i had all the features of touchpad like right click and scroll with two fingers etc. ...
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Four finger gesture in Fusuma/xdotool to change tab in Chrome?
I'm trying to use Fusuma/Xdotool to do a 4 finger swipe left/right to change tab in Chrome (i.e. to trigger alt+tab and alt+shift+tab. However, it doesn't seem to work. Other 3 and 4 finger gestures ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Not Recognizing Touchscreen Double tap
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Touchscreen Display.
Installed the new Dell touchscreen display unit (Dell P2418HT), most all functions work, but I am unable to get the "Double-Tap" to open folders in the ...
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How to set up multi finger gesture control in 20.04
How can you setup Multi-finger (3 and 4 finger specially) gesture controls in Ubuntu 20.04? I am new and this is my 1st question.
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Does anyone have a driver for Timelink Multitouch touch frame
Can anyone assist me please, i have a Timelink Multi-Touch frame that does not respond to any touch at all. I have tried downloading the touch driver from the manufacturers website "http://www....
