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xinput is a tool used to list any input devices, find out information about those devices and also change settings of any of those devices listed. Questions can cover xinput configuration and use itself and can also discuss input device configuration.

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I want to have a right hand mouse and a left hand mouse active at the same time in 24.04. I had used xinput on earlier versions but it does not look compatible with Xwayland server. I have loaded ...
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I am using Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS on a old 744E Fujitsu Lifebook Laptop Often my touchpad will not work - no mouse movement and no clicking possible. Only with an external mouse. The only fix for this is ...
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On my old laptop (HP 840 G7 with Ubuntu 20.04.6), I managed to transform an external mouse input using xinput set-prop 'Nordic 2.4G Wireless Receiver Mouse' --type=float "Coordinate ...
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I need a cli command to disable input devices (keyboard and mouse), as well as a command to enable them again. To disable input devices on Xorg it's: xinput float <id#>, and to enable them it's ...
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I recently purchased a Huawei Matebook D14 2023. I installed on an external SSD Ubuntu 20.04 and everything seems to work fine. I can use the touchpad without any issues, I can scroll with two finger, ...
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I'm experiencing an issue on my MacBook where the Apple Internal Keyboard appears twice in the xinput list on Ubuntu 22.04. Despite various attempts to resolve the issue, the duplicate entry persists. ...
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I have a lenovo t14 gen5 AMD with ubuntu 24.04 and Gnome 46. As it's a recent laptop, I have a lot of painful problems with it. The most annoying right now is the touchpad 2 finger scroll that is way ...
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In school we have two 86' Monitors with touch and a Controlmonitor. So i duplicate my Laptop Monitor to one 86' (via USB-C DP-2) and have an external Monitor over HDMI that is duplicated by a HDMI-...
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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 ...
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I am working on a setup where I use multiple input devices/cursors to control a webpage. It works fine with reassigning input devices via xinput. There is one problem: When one cursor e.g. hovers on ...
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I am using Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 1. At the bottom of my touchpad are left, middle and right click buttons. I am often accidentally pasting things by clicking the bottom middle of ...
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I tried a few approaches like xinput list and xinput disable but still can't get to completely disable the mouse (touchpad or any other pointer input) on my Ubuntu machine. Does anyone know how to do ...
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I don't know how to describe my question in short, but bear with me. I got a G502 Lightspeed Mouse, and ubuntu 22.04. No general problems, but i noticed that when my scrollwheel is not in free spin ...
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I bought a Elecom Huge trackball and I'm trying to configure the extra buttons to work with Rimworld on Steam. Steam only has remedial mouse support AFAIK and Ubuntu does not seem to have a gaming ...
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Problem Summary So, when I connect my Star 03 graphic tablet to the system, the inbuilt wacom drivers in Ubuntu 22.04 kind of detect the device. However, when I install the official driver from the xp-...
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