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control scrolling speed in webpages in firefox
Open a new tab in Firefox, and enter into the address bar: about:config.
There may be a warning about the sensitivity of the advanced settings within, accept the risk and proceed.
There will be a ...
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Disable middle click with Wayland
Solution
Use the command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation true
When we enable middle click emulation, if there is a real middle button on your touchpad he'...
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Set left-handed mouse and right-handed touchpad
The following is verified to work with Wayland
Install input-remapper $ sudo apt-get install input-remapper
Run it and select the mouse.
Map Button Right to BTN_LEFT:
Map Button Left to BTN_RIGHT:
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Ubuntu touchpad setting not working
Run in a terminal
sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
and reboot.
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How to change 2-finger touchpad scroll speed on Ubuntu 22.04
Background
Ubuntu 22.04 is using wayland display server. Apps either use wayland natively , or via an X / xorg compatibility layer. (Xwayland). See also How can I tell if an application is using ...
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Touchpad starts requiring 2 fingers - way to fix?
I did solved this using Gnome Tweaks to configure laptop lid action.
In General tab, I checked "Suspend when laptop lid is closed", then closed the lid and the issue no longer appears (after ...
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Touchpad stopped working 20.04
Well, all I did was to get to the “settings” and enabled the touchpad which surprisingly was disabled. I will check for the next few days if there is an issue and I will report here.
This touchpad ...
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Does Ubuntu support the ASUS trackpad of a ZenBook-14-UX?
Integrated numpad to touchpad is, unfortunately, still not working on Ubuntu 20.04 by default. (reported issue)
But I'm a developer and I've written a linux driver that enables most of the features. ...
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How do you enable tap-to-click via command line?
When setting the Synaptics Tap Action value using xinput, you may need to specify a sequence of numbers. For example, to get normal primary and secondary tap functionality on my Logitech touchpad, I ...
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Internet, touchpad and laptop screen stopped working after reboot
dpkg-query: package 'linux-modules-extra-5.13.0-51-generic' is not
installed
While you are still booted into -48, open a terminal and do:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --reinstall linux-modules-...
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xrdp provided by APT has a touchpad scrolling issue. How can I get a newer version?
TL;DR: you can't.
For apt to support later versions of packages, a package maintainer must package the code for Ubuntu, and possibly it will be tested/verified to work before being released on apt. If ...
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Unable to set scrolling speed of touchpad. (Ubuntu 22.10, wayland)
I've given up on getting this to work.
Note, although I am on Ubuntu 22.10, the same issue is present on older Ubuntu versions too.
I did find a workaround by doing the scrolling per app if the app ...
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Unable to set scrolling speed of touchpad. (Ubuntu 22.10, wayland)
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 and I got it to work in chrome.
got to chrome://flags/ search Windows Scrolling Personality and enable it.
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How can I allow the touchpad to keep working while a keyboard button is pressed?
You can disable disable-w-typing using the gsettings command.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false
You can enable it back with the following command.
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VirtualBox Version 6.1.40 breaks Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS guest's mouse scrolling
I had the exact same problem today when I upgraded to 6.1.40. I upgraded to 7.0.2 and that problem went away. I am now getting another unrelated problem so I am probably going back to 6.1.38 until ...
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Scrolling jumpy, scroll speed too fast, mouse acceleration weird
I recently moved from Xubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 and surprisingly the scrolling experience is way much worse in the newer (and most popular) Ubuntu 22.04 than Xubuntu 20.04. This is a surprise ...
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How to use a bash command as a custom shortcut?
I tried to debug the command, so I created a script containing it, made it executable (chmod +x script.sh) and run debugging mode: sh -x script.sh.
I got:
+ param_name=TouchpadOff
+ synclient -l
+ awk ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 touchpad and keyboard freeze randomly
(not sure)
Looks like your problem is related to System Suspend (or Sleep) when you close the lid.
Try to configure your system not to fall asleep on lid close.
I'm on Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen2.
And I ...
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Moving mouse creates KeyPress events, preventing holding down keys
Solved with xinput set-prop keyboard:"Lenovo Lenovo Y Gaming Precision Mouse" "Device Enabled" 0 on my .xsessionrc file, my mouse for some reason was listed as both pointer and ...
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Fresh 22.04 Keyboard Input Lag / Non-responsive Touchpad
Just identified problem - need to upgrade kernel (mine version was 5.5.X) upgraded to 6.1.0-060100rc1-generic and this problem disappeared.
Full instructions how to on: https://sypalo.com/how-to-...
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Xserver doesn't receive events from touchpad
Hi I found that the solution is simply to install the module psmouse in the desktop.
sudo modprobe psmouse
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Bosto (Nuvoton) touchpad xinput setup
Problem solved after updating kernel to 5.15. Device now present in xinput list, but still not working. Futher investigation in Xserver doesn't receive events from touchpad
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Asus Touchpad not working on Ubuntu 20.04.04 LTS
Some diagnostics would be helpful.
Does the touchpad work when running from a Live Ubuntu USB? If so, you know the cause is with the installed system; if not, the cause is hardware.
What occurred ...
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There is no two finger scroll option in my "Mouse and Touchpad" settings
Here's what did the trick in my Acer Nitro 5:
Go to the BIOS setup;
If there is no 'Touchpad' option in the 'main' tab, press Ctrl+S; it should instantly appear.
Select 'Touchpad' and change from PS2 ...
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How to change 2-finger touchpad scroll speed on Ubuntu 22.04
Try the steps below:
Run:
sudo xinput list
and find the ID for the touchpad ('id of touchpad') of your computer.
Next run:
xinput list-props 'id of touchpad'
The output will be something like:
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How to change 2-finger touchpad scroll speed on Ubuntu 22.04
The command below will solve the problem of overscrolling:
xinput set-prop 13 "libinput Scrolling Pixel Distance" 50
where 13 is device id and 50 is the value. The default value was 15. ...
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touchpad works even when i disable it on ubuntu 22.04
Try to disable the Synaptics touchpad driver, then reboot.
sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
I had installed the driver to get rid of some erratic behavior due to too high touchpad ...
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Touchpad can't be disabled in Ubuntu 22.04
How to enable/disable the touchpad/trackpad in Ubuntu 22.04 from the command-line
For anyone just looking for this, here's how.
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 with the default Wayland display server as well ...
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Touchpad can't be disabled in Ubuntu 22.04
The above solutions worked great for me under the previous release, but after upgrading to 22.04, they are no longer effective. Removing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics did not change anything, and when ...
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Lenovo V15-IIL touchpad not detected in ubuntu 22.04
I was facing the same problem with kernel 5.15.0-56 on my Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 laptop. I took the kernel downgrade workaround to version 5.15.0-52 and it worked.
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