Questions tagged [multi-touch]
Questions about Ubuntu's multi-touch features.
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Magic Trackpad 2 is not recognized as synpatic touchpad
I have found a lot of posts on the Internet working with Apple Magic Trackpad on Ubuntu. I bought Apple Magic Trackpad 2 and seems like it is not recognized as a touchpad. I can do left click and ...
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Two finger touchscreen gestures on ubuntu 13?
Ubuntu worked with my new touchscreen enabled notebook (Dell Inspiron 14R) out-of-the-box, which was a pleasant surprise. But it seems to have only three and four finger gestures, as hinted here:
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Really disable touchpad over the button region
I just installed ubuntu 16.04 as a dual boot with (pre-installed) Windows (just in case I need it twice a year...) on my new HP Spectre x360 13-ac004nf. Under Windows, the touchpad works fine and ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 Touchpad: two-finger-tap action
Hi i just installed Ubuntu 17.10 and was configuring it so that i 'can work' with it.
and i stumbled over the touchpad configuration.
my touchpad has two hardware buttons for left and right click (...
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3 fingers swipe change workspace in Ubuntu 14.04
I just bought an Dell XPS 13 and for my work I have a Macbook.
I want to use the touchpad for changing workspaces. I have found some questions but all the answers provided does not work on Ubuntu 14....
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Touchpad 2 finger scroll ends with a right click, text marking lag
Some recent update made my two-finger scrolling unbearable. Every single time I scroll it ends with a right click.
Another thing I've noticed is a sort of lag when I'm marking text. This is also ...
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How can I continue having two fingers on the trackpad?
I'm quite new to ubuntu (with GUI) - just got over from OS X.
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my MacBook Pro 9.2, and I have the habit of leaving one finger at the bottom of the trackpad ready to ...
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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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How to enable 2 finger touchpad pinch to zoom gesture (not ctrl+/-) Ubuntu 19.10?
It seems in 19.10 the touchscreen 2 finger zoom is finally working correctly out of the box. So why is same behavior not on the touchpad? Is there any driver, software, Ubuntu flavor, Linux ...
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Is there a way to use full functionality of Magic Trackpad with ubuntu 17.10
What way would you recommend to take advantage of multi-touch gestures with MagicTrackpad2 on Ubuntu 17.10 (Gnome)?
Next aspects are of particular interest: possibility to configure 1 to 4 finger ...
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Touchscreen is being recognized as a mouse
I plugged in a 3M touchscreen to my Linux PC. It appears as it recognizes it as a mouse. Here's my xinput output:
xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
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Asus g501 Multitouch not working on 16.04
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 but the multitouch doesn't work which makes it very hard to work. Here are the issues I'm facing;
Since the left and right click buttons are part of the ...
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Touchpad middle click and gestures
How can i customize gestures listed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch.
I can use these gestures:
3 finger double tap -> switches to previous window
3 finger tap followed by 3-fingers hold -> ...
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How do I get three finger click to work on my touchpad? (middle click works with laser/optical mouse)
Running Ubuntu 15.10 on a 4 year old laptop, and while the touchpad driver I'm using works very well with scrolling and two finger clicking, I cannot figure out how to get three finger clicking to ...
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Enable multiple touches on touchpad
I have a Vaio laptop, where the touchpad contains the two buttons (primary and secondary). This means you have to click your touchpad to click on things. The buttons are not separate to the touchpad. ...
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Touchpad not detected
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 in the new Lenovo Z510 Ideapad laptop. To check if my Touchpad is detected I typed the command
xinput list
and this is my output:
I tried everything mentioned in this, ...
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Touchegg not working 12.10 after multi-touch unity gestures disabled
I've read the thread here How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity? where people seem to have solved their problems with touchegg in 12.10.
As for me, I'm able to install ...
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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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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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Dell XPS 13 9350 touchpad multi finger gesture on Ubuntu 19.04
Having installed and set-up my Ubuntu 19.04 to my liking I found out that I missed the multi-finger gestures that were available on Windows 10.
The two-finger scrolling works fine.
Examples of ...
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Why does my touch screen have smooth scroll, momentum and elasticity but my Magic Mouse and touch pad do not?
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I have a Razer Blade 14 laptop which has a built-in QHD+ touch display.
I am using Ubuntu 17.04.3 + GNOME 3.24
I have a Magic Mouse version 1 (and version 2 but that's not ...
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Two finger scrolling not working in Ubuntu 16.04
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu to find two finger scrolling in my touchpad was no longer working. I came across this post and it shows that I should be having that option in my system settings. However,...
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Ubuntu 17.04 multitouch gestures are not working on Macbook pro
Just updated to Ubuntu 17.04 and (three and four finger) multitouch gestures as described on the link below stopped working. They use to work fine on my macbook pro but stopped with the latest ubuntu ...
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Looking for Ubuntu 14.04 Photo Viewer just like Eye of MATE
Some context: While using Ubuntu MATE 16, I liked using the standard image viewer, Eye of MATE. It enlarges the picture by using a two-finger swipe up. IT will scroll left and right by using arrow ...
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Multitouch and Headphone White Noise on Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VM with Ubuntu 16.04
I have installed Ubuntu on my Asus Zenbook Pro UX501VM and I have two problems : I've partly fixed the headphone noise and I have no clue for the touchpad
I can't use 2 finger scolling and other ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Surface 3 Pro - Touchpad 2-finger-gestures
I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 with the newest kernel on my SP3. Everything works fine except the touchpad, there is no option to activate two-finger-scrolling and 2-finger-tap-right-click.
I've found ...
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Lenovo synaptics clickpad dead zones (click and drag issues)
A while back, I bought a Lenovo Yoga 2 11 (Model 20332), and promptly set it up to dual boot ubuntu. So far it's been a fantastic machine, however there's one thing that keeps me rebooting into ...
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Adding a threshold to two-finger scrolling on touchpad
I accidentally trigger two-finger scrolling on my touchpad when I mean to tap-to-click. Can I add a minimum threshold to reduce accidental scroll events?
It causes issues when I:
hold my finger ...
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Touchpad Options missing from System Settings
I have a Razer Blade 14" running 14.04. When I start the computer rarely will the touchpad options appear in the settings. When they do, it works fine. More often than not, however, the settings are ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I set up gestures in Kubuntu?
I would like to do the following thing: scroll down with three fingers => windows presentation from all Desktops (equivalent to Ctrl+F10).
The question is "How can I do it?" :)
I have (quite) ...
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How to activate my touchpad features on Samsung Series 7 Chronos
I'm just looking to how enable the features of my touchpad on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.10. The mouse is working but none of the features are working (like two fingers scrolling up/down).
I visited ...
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Enabling middle-click and gestures on multitouch clickpad? (Ubuntu 12.04; Samsung NP900X3A-A03US)
Out of the box (with the xorg.conf from the Ubuntu wiki), left-click, right-click, and two-finger scroll all work flawlessly. However, middle-click doesn't work at all (despite appearing to be ...
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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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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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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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Is there a command-line command to cycle through gnome-shell 3.34 workspaces?
The context here is that I'm using cunidev/gestures to set up mac-like three-finger gestures for my laptop, for window switching. What I have right now is:
a three-finger upwards swipe triggers dbus-...
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Horizontal scrolling controls volume (Ubuntu 19.04)
I am on Ubuntu 19.04, GNOME Shell 3.32.1, on a Lenovo laptop. I have installed libinput-tools and some touchpad gestures work fine. However, there is a gesture that I cannot find in the libinput ...
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Two-finger-scroll won't autorotate (18.10)
I have a Dell Precision 5530 2-in-1 and with Ubuntu 18.10 everything works ridiculously well.
There is one (admittedly rather minor) issue though.
When I go into tablet mode the two-finger-scroll won'...
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Adding mac like gestures in ubuntu
I am using ubuntu 18 and trying to use this guide to add mac like trackpad gestures, I did everything and nothing happens. my lenovo laptop supports multi gesture.
What should I do?
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Disable Multitouch for kiosk mode
We control some public stands for information. These things come with a 4 finger touch screen. Problem is, when a user swipes with 4 fingers, the GNOME menu appears. The user now can do a lot of ...
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Disable three finger paste on ubuntu 16.04
How do I disable three finger paste in Ubuntu 16.04?
The output of xinput list-props <Touchpad>
looks like this:
Device Enabled (142): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (144): 1.000000, 0....
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