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How to disable the "tap dragging"-feature in Ubuntu 18.04 (libinput) without disabling "tap to click"?
GNOME has a setting for this, it is just not accessible in GNOME Control Center.
You can either use terminal or dconf-editor to access this setting.
Terminal:
Turn off tap-and-drag.
gsettings set ...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
I had the same problem and basically solved it by following Ryko's advice.
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
... did the trick. I didn't uninstall libinput like Pilot6 said and libinput ...
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How to add natural (/inverted) mouse-scrolling in i3 window manager?
Edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
Add there Option "NaturalScrolling" "True" like this:
For your mouse:
# Match on all types of devices but joysticks
Section "InputClass"
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Change cursor speed in libinput
You can set the cursor speed in two ways:
Set an option in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
On original 16.04, or 16.04.2 stack it is 90-libinput.conf.
The option is called "AccelSpeed". ...
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How to disable the "tap dragging"-feature in Ubuntu 18.04 (libinput) without disabling "tap to click"?
Since 18.04 is using Xorg instead of Wayland, you should be able to set it this way:
First find the device:
% xinput list
⎡ Virtual ...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
If you're running an HWE release (like 18.04.2) then you'll actually want:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-18.04
You don't need to remove any packages, just add this and once it's ...
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 - Tap to click is not reliable anymore
What ended up working for me was to remove the synaptics driver:
sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
followed by a reboot. After that the touchpad worked again. I have a Dell XPS 15 9650.
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How to configure touchpad two fingers tap as middle click in ubuntu 19.10? Libinput is used
You can add
Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
to the touchpad section of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf file like this:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchpad ...
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Adaptive acceleration for touchpad on Ubuntu 17.10
In 17.10, you can also set the acceleration profile directly and disable mouse acceleration by setting accel-profile to 'flat'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse accel-profile 'flat'
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Disable three-finger paste in ubuntu 18.04
If you have gnome-tweaks installed (it's a very useful program), you can disable Middle Click Paste in the 'Keyboard & Mouse' tab. I used this to disable it on 19.10, and it should work for you on ...
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How to configure touchpad tap sensitivity?
Use the libinput measure touchpad-pressure tool provided by libinput. This tool will search for your touchpad device and print some pressure statistics, including whether a touch is/was considered ...
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erratic behaviour of trackpoint on thinkpad t420s [UBUNTU 18.04]
Disabling the acceleration profile helps:
xinput --set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'libinput Accel Profile Enabled' 0, 1
Then you might want to increase your pointer's speed:
xinput --set-prop '...
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16.04: Elantech touchpad not working on new laptop
I would suggest trying the libinput driver. It's much newer than evdev and synaptics and fixed some issues I had with the Elan touchpad on the computer I use. It also supports most of the hardware of ...
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 - Tap to click is not reliable anymore
Installing Touchpad Indicator worked for me!
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How to disable mouse debouncing in libinput
Just reposting the discussion in comments as an answer.
First of, to avoid confusion: OP does not have a hardware button for double-clicks. Rather, the double-click they were referring to is when you ...
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Problem installing libinput on 16.04.2
So I submitted a bug report and the response was this:
You're not supposed to have xserver-xorg-input-libinput installable, that's not possible
because it's bound to the server input ABI
install ...
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Touchpad power-management issue, "sticky cursor", input detection delay (autosuspend)
I found a solution to my issue:
As suggested here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection I was trying to disable power-management for my touchpad by running as root something like
echo '...
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Adaptive acceleration for touchpad on Ubuntu 17.10
For this, try editing the key speed from the schema org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad. The description for the key is as follows:
Pointer speed for the touchpad. Accepted values are in the [-1.....
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Libinput: Change Touchpad 2 finger and 3 finger clicks
Trying to achieve the same thing here, but with Libinput it is not possible (in fact, some params are hardcoded and not changeable).
I have a touchpad that also does clickpad (you can either "touch" ...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
can you give instructions on how to do the override?
The synaptics config file can be copied to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and given a higher number than the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d synaptics.conf ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 switch back to synaptics as input driver
If someone else is interessted in solving this questions:
install: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and xserver-xorg-input-evdev
remove: xserver-xorg-input-libinput
and as far as I just figured out it ...
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How do i turn off the trackpoint within wayland?
This worked for me today:
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-myfavoritetrackpoint.rules
In that file:
# ALPS DualPoint Stick: Ignore as input device
ATTRS{name}=="*DualPoint Stick", ENV{...
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Configuring touchpad resolution with libinput
With all the different X implementations, The most reliable method is to set input device options is by using xinput as shown In this answer. In your case the "option name" you want to look for will ...
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Libinput: Change Touchpad 2 finger and 3 finger clicks
From this page:
Button re-mapping
Swapping two- and three-finger tap for a touchpad is a straight forward example. Instead of the default three-finger tap for pasting you can configure two-finger tap ...
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How to disable mouse acceleration in 17.04
apparently some changes in the underlying code make it necessary to change the command you used to: xinput --set-prop 'USB OPTICAL MOUSE' 'libinput Accel Profile Enabled' 0, 1
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Reverse UI-scrolling in Unity Ubuntu 16.04 with libinput
Following this guide:
xinput --list
and found my trackpad, bcm5974. Then checked properties of it:
xinput --list-props bcm5974
and saw
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (350): 0
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
I ran into problem after installing synaptics touchpad in ubuntu 18.04. My keyboard stopped working. So, I booted into the system (keyboard was working on login screen), mouse was working properly so ...
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Use two-finger right click in Plasma
Here's the situation as I understand it, though I'm no expert. After 2 decades of being standard on laptops, touchpads are finally supported in the kernel. Therefore, the synaptics driver isn't ...
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Touchpad using libinput instead of synaptics driver
I know this thread is old, but I recently had this same problem after updating to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I Solved this problem by changing the synaptics number priority in
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
In ...
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Keyboard not working after shutdown (ASUS Zenbook 13 OLED UM325S)
I will build on your good work identifying differences between
"working-conditions" (WKC)
and "non-working-conditions" (NWC).
Note: I am surprised you have to do any of what is ...
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