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Questions tagged [xinput]

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What is my X11 doing with Ctrl-Period and how can I disable it?

How do I disable whatever X-window-system-wide setting is intercepting Ctrl-Period for some kind of special input popup? More detail: I'm trying to bind an emacs command to Ctrl-Period (C-.), which worked fine on a previous system. On this new…
Steve
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Touchpad not working and not detected when I run 'xinput list', on Ubuntu 20.04

I was typing a text when my touchpad stopped working. After surfing on the web to try to fix the error, I ran xinput list and here is the output : ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST…
Bastien.mva
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Trying to keybind spacebar to a mouse button on Ubuntu with no luck

I've tried xInput and AutoKey, but xInput only seems to allow me to bind mouse buttons to mouse buttons or keyboard buttons to keyboard buttons. For example, I managed to bind my middle mouse button the the "browser back" button on my mouse. I'm now…
Kevin Higby
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Remap Windows key on MS Sculpt Comfort Mouse

I would like to remap the "Windows button" on MS Sculpt Comfort Mouse to another button (eg. "Back" button) on my Linux machine (Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya"). According to xinput list, the mouse is recognized as a pointer device (id=12). ⎡ Virtual core…
Pavel Kriz
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Trackpoint speed too high with libinput

archlinux recently switched to libinput as the default input driver. Since then the trackpoint on my Dell Latitude E5470 is barely usable. It is much too fast and detailed pointing isn't possible. xinput lists the following properties for the…
languitar
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I cannot configure usb devices via xinput

I would like to have access to my input devices settings. In the previous versions of ubuntu I was used to do that via xinput. However xinput provides the following input: WARNING: running xinput against an Xwayland server. See the xinput man page…
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External keyboard’s Trackpoint middle button clicks even when scrolling

I am using a Thinkpad and try to get into the habit of using an external keyboard, which also has a Trackpoint. With the internal keyboard, I can use the middle mouse button to click (e.g. paste, or open link in new tab), but if I hold the middle…
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NO Xinput on Debian 10 Buster

I installed Debian 10 Buster and can't find the way to control my mouse options from Xinput like I do on Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9. Thing is that my mouse device is a Razer Abyssus, and it comes with a very slow move configuration when you plug it to a…
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synaptics touchpad in linux can single tap twice to drag, but not double tap twice

I'm using Arch Linux with i3 window manager. I have tap-to-click and also tap-to-drag enabled in xinput, so currently if tap twice with one finger, it successfully drags. Additionally, tapping once with two fingers works like clicking the right…
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Game uses all Joystick ID#'s - how to make it use only the virtual joystick?

I use a third-party controller (in my example it's Saitek P990). I was fine using it for quite some time because the games I played didn't detect my joystick at all and I was able to use it with either x360ce or World of Joysticks xInput Emulator…
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Linux gamepad - no input events

I'm trying to use a gamepad under linux (kernel is 4.16.10) and I don't seem to get any input events out of it. The device, a fake xbox 360 controller, seems to be detected as dmesg seems to report: #dmesg when pluging in controller [29505.029981]…
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For libinput properties of xinput, whats the difference between those with default in their names and those without?

For xinput list-props "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" my output is Device 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad': Device Enabled (139): 1 Coordinate Transformation Matrix (141): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000,…
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Is there a way to use my 360 controller as a DirectInput controller on my PC?

For example, in old games that don't support XInput, I can't use my 360 controller. It won't recognise the analogue sticks or triggers (I just want to recognise them as buttons, not triggers). Is there a way to get games (or Windows) to treat my 360…
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Touchscreen right click emulation doesn't work

I have a touchscreen device for which I have enabled third button emulation in xinput: Device 'ft5x_ts': ... Evdev Third Button Emulation (257): 1 Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (258): 750 Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (259): 3 Evdev…
Dmitry Grigoryev
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How to use different pointers and keyboard for different monitors

I have a system running on top of Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop which I use along with an external monitor. I am trying to work on both simultaneously and I want to be using separate input methods for separate monitors. I have a logitech keyboard and…
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