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The Linux desktop is unfortunately not a mainstream operating system, and so peripherals manufacturers don't care much whether those cool extra side buttons (or whatever else) of our mouse works as intended or not. Thankfully, Linux is a powerful system that allows users to set things as they like, so here is a quick guide on how to map your mouse. Xbindkeys is a good utility for binding mouse buttons to actions, for example my.xbindkeysrc for binding my mouse buttons to Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab, and Ctrl+W (next tab, previous tab, close tab): 'xdotool key ctrl+Tab' b:8 'xdotool key ctrl+shift+Tab' b:9 'xdotool key ctrl+w' b:13'. Howto map mouse button to keyboard key hey all I'd like to map my 4th mouse button (thumb button) to my keyboard 'alt' key. With KDE, this would allow me to move/resize windows only with the mouse and without having to use the window's edge or title bar (great when they're hidden), but I don't know how to achieve that. My mouse has a kind of companion software that allows me to modify button behavior and store it into the mouse itself so if I just want one certain functionality globally, I can just do that without additional software required. But my workflow has pretty much revolved around customized thumb button allotments depending on the application.
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Problems with touchpad detection typically fall into one of these categories:
- Your Touchpad doesn't work at all.
- Your Touchpad stops working after a while.
- Your Touchpad has the simple features of a mouse, but Touchpad features, like tapping, scrolling, etc. do not work at all.
- Some features of your Touchpad like scrolling, tapping, or dragging don't work as expected.
If your are unsure to which package the bug should be filed, or your problem is not listed in any of the categories, then please file your touchpad related bugs against xserver-xorg-input-libinput or xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (if it is installed). If the bug turns out to be a bug related to the kernel (linux) or any other package, bug triagers will assign your bug additionally to that package and mark the task related to xserver-xorg-input-input/synaptics, as invalid.
General information before filing the bug
This information should be provided in the bug description itself:
- Laptop model directly from the sticker of the computer.
- Manufacturer of the Touchpad.
- When the symptom first appeared.
Sample Description - 'ALPS Touchpad' incorrectly detected as PS/2 mouse in 'Sony Vaio VPCCW16FG' after the kernel upgrade.
However, if you think that the bug is a general one with your Touchpad, and is irrespective of the laptop model, you could omit mentioning the laptop model in the description. Please only consider doing this when you are very sure that the bug is affecting all laptops with that Touchpad model.
In case your Touchpad doesn't work at all (No response from the Touchpad)
This is generally a case of a kernel (linux) or xorg bug.
- Execute at a terminal:One should see a touchpad device, like: If you do not find something like this, then the bug is in the linux kernel. Please follow these steps:
- File the bug against the linux package by running ubuntu-bug linux.
- Provide the general information.
- Enter the following commands in a terminal:
- Attach ~/devices https://wheeltree816.weebly.com/frp-bypass-without-otg-samsung-s7.html. as separate attachments to your bug report.
- If you see a touchpad device in /proc/bus/input/devices, check by connecting an external mouse to see if that works. If it does, then one may be affected by the transition from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to libinput. Hence, one will want to check by uninstalling xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to see if this resolves the issue. If not, please see below:
- After reading this about how to enter VT and log evtest events, switch to a VT using Crtl+Alt+F2 and enter the following in your terminal:where the 'X' in 'eventX' is the event number found by typing in a terminal:
- Scroll, tap, drag, press buttons, and create various other possible events on the Touchpad. Then, press CTRL+C to exit and execute:
- Press Crtl+Alt+F7 to switch back to X.
- Add as separate attachments ~/evtest and ~/Xorg.0.log to the bug report.
In case your Touchpad stops working after a while
This is generally a case of a kernel (linux) or xorg bug. In this case, in the description field, specify the steps to make the touchpad stop working (e.g. hit a key, drag an icon, after X seconds of inactivity, etc.).
- If your Touchpad stops working after it has been left unused for awhile, it may be due to runtime power-management. Disable runtime power management of the Touchpad device and check if the issue persists.
- Look for your Touchpad device in /proc/bus/input/devices.
- The line starts with S: is the path of the Touchpad device, the full path will be something like /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5/power/control.
- Disable runtime power-managed by running echo on | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5/power/control (replace the path with the one for your Touchpad device.
- If the problem disappears, report as such to your bug report. If the problem persists, read on.
- After reading this on how to enter VT and log evtest events, switch to a VT using Crtl+Alt+F2 and enter following in your terminal:
- Perform the action that makes the Touchpad fails. Then, press CTRL+C to exit.
- Press Crtl+Alt+F7 to switch back to X.
- Add as separate attachments ~/evtest to the bug report.
- Directly after logging in to GNOME, KDE, or Xfce open a terminal and enter the following commands:
- Wait until your touchpad stops working.
- Enter the following commands:
- Attach ~/devices, ~/dmesg_boot, ~/dmesg_diff, ~/Xorg.0.log and ~/Xorg.0.log_diff as separate attachments to your bug report.
In case Touchpad features like scrolling, tapping, etc. do not work at all.
Common symptom is absence of the 'Touchpad' tab/device shown in Control Center.
Your touchpad may be wrongly recognized as a mouse. So xserver-xorg-input-synaptics has nothing to do with it. Please note in the case of filing a bug against the kernel (linux), you should not mark the bug a duplicate of another. Even if you can find a closely related bug and you have a strong feeling that the bug should be duplicate. This is a policy of the Ubuntu Kernel Team and it helps them to handle bugs better.
Please execute at a terminal:
If the output includes the name of your Touchpad (e.g. Name='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'), then the linux kernel has detected it right. In any case, attach as separate attachments to your bug report the results of the following commands:
In case at least one of the Touchpad features work, but does not work correctly and as expected
Examples of this are jumpy cursor, scrolling problems, Touchpad area is misdetected, circular scrolling, and buttons not correctly mapped. Please attach the following files as separate attachments to your bug report:
- Execute in a terminal:
- Execute in a terminal:
- Please note that <id> is the number of your Touchpad found executing in a terminal:
- An example, partial output of this notes the id is 12:
- After reading this for help on how to enter VT and log evtest events, switch to a VT using Crtl+Alt+F2 and enter the following in a terminal:
- Perform the action that does not work on the Touchpad. Then, press CTRL+C to exit.
- Press Crtl+Alt+F7 to switch back to X.
- After reading this on reporting xev logs, execute the following in a terminal, and perform the relevant actions:
In case your multitouch features does not work
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This bug is common in Synaptics Touchpad V7.2 where multitouch works perfect in windows but not in linux. This is not a bug related to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. Multitouch capabilities are not detected but the kernel itself as evident in:
shows:
This bug is already known (see the Known bugs below). In this case please don't file any new bugs, but add a comment in the existing bug for any relevant information that you have.
NOTE : Synaptics is not willing to disclose the protocol it uses for the multitouch support for its newer Touchpads. As soon as Synaptics discloses it's protocol, this issue will be fixed. So, this is not a bug in general, and has been classified as a wishlist.
For any other case, include the following as separate attachments in your bug report:
- xinput --list-props <id> > ~/xinput
- In xinput --list-props <id> , <id> is the number of your touchpad found by executing at a terminal:
- After reading this for help on how to enter VT and log evtest events, switch to a VT using Crtl+Alt+F2 and enter following in your terminal:
- Add identifier, Scroll, tap, drag, press buttons, and create various other possible events on the Touchpad. Then, press CTRL+C to exit.
- Press Crtl+Alt+F7 to switch back to X.
- Take your pointer in the windows and hold down your two fingers on the Touchpad and raise. Also try to tap with two fingers.
- Attach as separate attachments to your bug report ~/xev, ~/xinput and your ~/evtest.
Before filing new bug please look in the common bugs section.
Enabling right button click for clickpads on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS added support for clickpads. The buttons are pressed by pressing the surface of the trackpad itself. All known clickpads, with the exception of the Apple Magic Trackpad, have indications on the trackpad for where the left and right buttons are. Clicking in the right button area should cause a right button click action. However, right button click support was added too late in the 12.04 LTS development cycle to be enabled by default. It is enabled by default in Ubuntu 12.10 and on.
Fortunately, the right click functionality is present and working in the release. It simply needs to be enabled. The attached enable-rightbutton.sh script may be used to simplify the process. After downloading the script, execute the following:
Be sure to use the device id or name of your specific trackpad. You can list the devices on your computer using the 'xinput' command.
If features of Touchpad like tapping and scrolling do not work at all, the user will not see the Touchpad Tab in System -> Administration -> Mouse in the Main menu. This means that Touchpad is misdetected as PS/2 mouse. Here the following workflow must be followed.
- Check whether the kernel has detected the Touchpad or not by executing at a terminal:If Touchpad is detected, then something like the following will appear:If Touchpad is not detected then the following will appear: In this case the bug must be a kernel issue.
- Check whether xserver has detected the Touchpad correctly by executing at a terminal: You will see the same name of Touchpad as above.
- Check whether the libinput (or synaptics for older Ubuntu) module is correctly loaded in xserver or not via executing at a terminal:
- For problems such as scrolling area, touch area, button wrong mapping, and multitouch, try investigating with:Look for name in:For example:Then, type:
- When debugging libinput, libinput debug-events would be helpful. The command is in the libinput-tools package.
- If the Touchpad vendor is Synaptics, try loading psmouse kernel module with synaptics_intertouch=0.
- If the Touchpad vendor is Elantech, try loading psmouse kernel module with elantech_smbus=0. This option only exists since Cosmic (linux v4.18 kernel).
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Most Linux distributions ship with “libinput” library by default to handle input events on a system. It can process input events on both Wayland and X and can handle a variety of input devices including touchscreen displays and stylus pens.This article explains changing various options for an input device being handled by the libinput library. To check and configure available options, a command line tool called “xinput” will be used.
Note that this guide works with X display server only. For Wayland, you have to rely on system settings provided by the distribution or use a centralized configuration utility like gsettings.
List Input Devices
Xinput comes pre-installed by default on Ubuntu. If for some reason it is not installed on your system, run the command below to install it:
To list all built-in and external input devices connected to your system, run the command below:
You will see some output in terminal like this:
The entry under “Virtual core pointer” (highlighted by red arrows) is a wired USB mouse connected to my system. You will have to use exact name or id shown in the screenshot above to configure mouse or touchpad settings through the xinput command line tool.
Note that in the screenshot above, xinput is showing properties of devices connected to my system. Device names and IDs will be different for your system depending on your hardware configuration and external devices connected via USB, Bluetooth, or wireless receivers.
View Properties of a Connected Device
To see current status and various options active for the device listed above, run a command in the following format:
For the Dell mouse listed above, the command would be:
There is a limitation with using this command. IDs shown in the terminal output tend to change when you connect a listed device to a different port. As the IDs keep changing, there is always a chance of accidentally changing settings for a different device. To overcome this issue, it is better to use full device name as identifier instead of its id. So for the Dell mouse listed above, the better command would be:
$ xinput --list-props'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
The area highlighted below in red rectangle shows current configuration for the device. You can only change options that are shown in the output. Depending on the capabilities of your device, some extra options may be listed while others can be omitted altogether.
Change Properties of a Connected Device
Now that you know how to check the properties of a connected input device, settings for it can be easily changed using some simple commands.
For instance, to enable or disable natural scrolling, you have to run commands in the following format:
$ xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'2850
$ xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'2851
$ xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'2851
“285” is the id for natural scrolling, as shown in the screenshot above. “0” disables natural scrolling while “1” enables it. Once again, using IDs is not a reliable way to change these settings. A better approach is to use the full property identifier.
$ xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled'0
$ xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled'1
'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled'0
$ xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled'1
Note that you are not supposed to touch property identifiers having the word “Default” in it. These are reference fallback values and any attempt to change them will result in xinput throwing an error.
To know more about other options and those listed in the terminal output above, visit the following page.
Making the Changes Persistent
The method explained above changes settings for active session only. https://wheeltree816.weebly.com/blog/frp-bypass-samsung-note-9. When you reboot the system, these changes will be gone. To make them persistent, two approaches can be used.
The first method requires you to add these commands to startup applications. You can add as many entries as you want using a nice graphical interface. No root permissions are required to create these entries, plus changing them later is super easy.
To add the command to startup applications, launch “Startup Applications” app from the application launcher. Click on “Add” button to add an entry. Set a description and enter appropriate xinput command as per your needs. Make sure that checkbox is checked once you have saved the entry.
That’s it, the xinput command you have entered will run automatically on system startup. I have added a little bit of delay to the command to wait for the session to load properly. For reference, here is the command used below in the screenshot below:
$ sleep3&& xinput set-prop 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled'1
'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled'1
The second method requires you to run some commands as root and edit a text file. The advantage of using this method is that you don’t have to create separate entries for each option in a GUI and everything just resides in one text file, making it easier to share it between devices.
Run the commands below to create required directory and the conf file:
$ sudomkdir-p/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
$ sudotouch/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-libinput.conf
$ sudotouch/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-libinput.conf
Notice the “99” part in the filename. It indicates the load order of the files that exist in “xorg.conf.d” folder. A file that has the highest number as prefix will be loaded last, overriding any options specified in previous files in case there are duplicates. By specifying “99” or any other number as a prefix, you can ensure that it is loaded after other files.
Open “99-libinput.conf” file with root access in your favorite text editor. Enter the code snippet below after making necessary changes as per your requirements.
Section 'InputClass'
Identifier 'Dell Mouse'
MatchProduct 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
Option 'NaturalScrolling' 'true'
EndSection
Identifier 'Dell Mouse'
MatchProduct 'PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse'
Option 'NaturalScrolling' 'true'
EndSection
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- Identifier “Dell Mouse” can be any name that you assign to the device to identify it (change as needed)
- MatchProduct “PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse” is the exact device name you found in the “xinput –list” command used above (change as needed)
- Option “NaturalScrolling” “true” enables natural scrolling system wide (change as needed)
By correctly specifying “MatchProduct”, you will be able to limit the configuration options to a specific device only. Changes made in the conf file will take effect when you reboot next time. You can add any number of options in the “InputClass” section. A list of various options that can be added to the file is available here.
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The method explained above is especially useful when you want to use per device configuration rules. Default system settings interface in GNOME and KDE provide only some of the most commonly used options available for various input devices. To configure advanced options for an input device, you have no choice but to either use “xinput” or create a dedicated configuration file.