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How can I adjust the mouse scrollwheel speed?
Adjust scroll speed
This is based directly on an answer to a similar question on AskUbuntu by user stvn66. I have tested it under elementary OS 0.4 Loki.
Unfortunately there is no simple setting to ...
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Shaky mouse pointer when using touchpad
This is a bug reported here if you could contribute your laptop model there for testing purposes. (The issue appears to be that the synaptics driver does not take precedence over the libinput driver.)
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make 3 fingers tap in mousepad equal to middle button mouse click
If you use synaptics driver you will probably have the synclient program installed. In terminal have a look at you current touchpad settings:
$ synclient -l
You will get a list with many settings. ...
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How to automatically disable touchpad when USB mouse connected
Edit - This works in Freya NOT Loki
Here is my solution for disabling the touchpad in elementary OS when attaching a USB mouse.
I created these instructions based on the following websites:
https:/...
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Mouse cursor invisible after installing Parallel Tools
So here is the solution if you are using Parallels to install ElementaryOS Loki
There is no Parallel Tools driver issue. It is just Boot Flag setting.
After installation of Parallel Tools, shut down ...
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Firefox Context Menus are weird and don't work correctly
I don't know if this is an firefox bug or not but there are more topics about this
Firefox right button on selected text start Inspect Tool not right button menu
and Firefox right click issue
Also ...
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How to fix elementaryOS touchpad problem
Thanks for providing the necessary information, after a lot of googling and reading bug reports, it seems the main solutions are as follows, I'll start with the easiest although I know you have ...
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Paste with middle mouse stop working
This is apparently an upstream Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1581088
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Focus window by mouse hover
You can do it by this command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode 'sloppy'
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copy on mouse highlight in terminal app
Found solution that works in the terminal app:
System Settings -> Mouse & Touchpad -> Clicking -> Middle click paste
https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad/issues/47
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How can I increase the mouse cursor size?
You need to install dconf Editor:
sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
After, run dconf Editor from applications menu, go to org > gnome > desktop > interface, find position "cursor-size" and ...
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Mouse acceleration off (REVISION IT)
You can turn it to 0:
xset m 00
Run this whenever you turn your pc on, or disconnect/connect your mouse.
You can run it on startup, by adding it as a startup script (guide here):
#!/bin/bash
xset ...
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How can I adjust the mouse scrollwheel speed?
Unfortunately there is no setting in elementary OS to adjust this. There is a bug over there at Launchpad. A possible solution could be http://www.webupd8.org/2015/12/how-to-change-mouse-scroll-wheel-...
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Touchpad two finger scrolling won't turn on
Have a look here: Two-finger Scroll is not working for my touchpad of ASUS X200MA
Maybe you have better luck in terminal...
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How to simulate middle mouse click in Loki?
I got this working. Firstly I needed to change the property name. Then I could use that with the xinput command inside ~/.profile. Thanks to this Unix Stackexchange answer, I am able to execute the ...
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How to disable the touchpad when mouse plugged in? - Loki & Freya
Or the far easier method:
Install, and run, Dconf-editor.
Then do the following: Search (ctrl-f)
touchpad
When you get to the key org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad
Then look in the right ...
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Pantheon not responding to mouse clicks
I also have the same issue. The mouse becomes completely unresponsive. However i could navigate with keyboard. I found a quick solution. Pressing win + space to open the launcher fixes it for me. At ...
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copy on mouse highlight in terminal app
If I understand correctly, you just want to copy text after highlighting it with a mouse. Correct? You should be able to just alternate-click and select copy.
EDIT:
1) A possible solution is to use ...
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How can I disable Tap to Click?
If you have a Synaptics touchpad (which I believe is on most laptops), you can use synclient to modify these settings.
To install simply run sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
In this ...
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Mouse pointers for lefties
You can install custom cursor themes in your profile using the following guide. You can find other themes that will work but for this example I am using the Obsidian Left theme.
Download the theme ...
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Cannot configure double-click (to open a folder) in files
Odin no longer supports a choice of single-click/double-click modes I am afraid. There is just one "mixed" mode where single clicking on a folder icon navigates and clicking on a file icon ...
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How do I configure my Logitech Keyboard / Mouse?
I found a solution using Solaar.
It is a Linux manager for many Logitech devices
The installation documentation can be found here.
I personnally chose to use pip to install the latest release of ...
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How to disable the touchpad when mouse plugged in? - Loki & Freya
Here is my solution for disabling the touchpad in elementary OS when attaching a USB mouse.
Here are some websites for reference:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188918
https://bbs....
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Touchpad shaking
I've had problems with my trackpad as well and posted my solution on reddit which you can check here: Link to Reddit. Not sure if it will solve your problem though!
Basically the command I've used ...
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Touchpad fast scroll possible?
Just a suggestion, you can try to emulate a wheel with this script.
#!/bin/bash
xinput set-int-prop "TOUCHPAD" "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1
xinput set-int-prop "TOUCHPAD" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button"...
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Hardware Enablement Stake update make mouuse invisble on Freya
The best solution is to upgrade to Loki. Loki contains a newer hardware support stack including a new Intel driver that doesn't have the mouse cursor issue.
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How do I remove copy/paste touchpad controls from elementary OS Loki?
I also used the xmodmap solution, but this disables the middle mouse completely.
Another solution is installing the gnome-tweak-tool from the AppCenter and disabling Middle-click Paste:
https://...
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Shaky mouse pointer when using touchpad
In case you want to continue using libinput instead of synaptics (which is deprecated), you can try manually upgrading libinput which fixed the problem on my Dell Latitude E7240.
From the following ...
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Features 'reveal pointer' does not work, whereas previously functioning properly
This is a bug tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad/+bug/1627121.
In green near the top of the page is "Does this bug affect you?" Click that and register yourself for ...
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Missing Cursor after standby
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1568604
I think this bug'll be fixed in loki RC1
A quicker workaround is ctrl+alt+f1 and ctrl+alt+f7
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