Questions about using, installing, configuring, repairing, or otherwise troubleshooting mice.
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script to scroll page by cursor movement - add the option to pause and change speed with keystrokes [closed]
i'm not a programmer, i got that script from usercripts.org and i've been trying to change it by myself but i'm failing miserably... need some help.
var browsingX = 0;
var browsingY = 0;
var ...
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How do I make my mouse slower or faster? [duplicate]
my last one got closed and I beleve it said to make a new thread but make more sence; so here it is: i've been looking up some ways to slow your mouse down for this game, but what they do is not ...
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Arch Linux: USB mouse fails after an hour of running
I have just installed Arch Linux with kernel version 3.9.5-1. While running xorg (in particular, XMonad), my Microsoft optical USB mouse fails (stops sending movements) after a length of time, every ...
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Left mouse click stops working in hyper-v after a minute
I'm having a really weird problem with Hyper-V on Windows 8 Pro, and I can't seem to figure out what's going on.
Problem:
I created Win8 vm in Hyper-V and booted it up
I use vmconnect (right click ...
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Windows 7 will not detect new logitech USB mouse
Yesterday, my old Microsoft IntelliMouse died. I bought a new Logitech USB mouse with a cable (no wireless) and connected it to my PC. Unfortunately, Windows 7 does not detect it.
I have tried to ...
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Is it feasible to use a gaming mouse for software development?
I was just thinking, after seeing this question over at stackoverflow, if it would be possible to assign such macros to the macro keys of gaming mouses. I'm not entirely sure how much sense that makes ...
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Unix Terminal: How to disable Trackpad
Is there a terminal command in Mac OS X to disable/enable the mouse? I know that I can disable the trackpad of my MBP when an external mouse is connected. But is this also possible without a ...
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Logitech M100 mouse is laggy [closed]
I bought a new Logitech M100 mouse but it's laggy; it's much more difficult to select something than the mouse I had before (also from Logitech). What can I do?
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How to enable mouse focus in Linux Mint 15 with Cinnamon
I'm a big fan of mouse-focus, or "focus follows mouse", and I had this enabled in Mint 14, but when I reinstalled with Mint 15 I can't find the option anywhere. None of the sections in "system ...
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Why Magic Mouse becomes jumpy with time?
I use Apple Magic Mouse for more than a year with my MacBook Pro, and I notice that as time passes its tracking precision degrades. Last month I found myself with an intolerable jumpiness of the ...
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In many games, right clicking makes the camera spin around 180º
I been having for quite a long time a weird problem with games like Team Fortress 2, Portal and other Source Engine games where right clicking would spin the camera around and face almost to the ...
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Dual Monitors Mac OS X - CMD + TAB AND move mouse to focused Application
On my computer setup I have dual monitors, one is vertical for code and the other is horizontal for the web browser. I am new to Mac OS X and was wondering if it was possible when switching apps with ...
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USB mouse frequently turns on and off for a couple of seconds and eventually dies
My A4Tech X760H mouse keeps turning off by itself for 1-2 seconds randomly. Sometimes I hear a Windows sound like when you plug/unplug a device, sometimes not. I tried plugging it into another USB ...
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How can I get my mouse's tilt wheel to stop sending simulated keypresses?
Background: SetPoint conflicts with some of the programs I use, so I'd like to get rid of it entirely. No, I'm not open to trying different programs.
Unfortunately, when using a Logitech MX620 mouse ...
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Misbehavior of my mouse
I did a clean installation of Windows 7 on my computer more than a month ago, prior to that I have never had a problem with my mouse. Then about three weeks ago, one day, I was here on one of the ...
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Weird triangle on mouse
I seem to have a very weird pointer on my Samsung S22C200 22in monitor (second screen plugged into laptop). I'm seeing a weird triangle/arrow next to my mouse. I see it any time the mouse is not the ...
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USB Devices Lose Power / Stop Working after OS (XP SP 3) loads
After suffering a BSOD, I switched off my Dell Dimension. When I turned it back on and it reached the XP login screen, both my USB mouse and keyboard lost power. I turned it back on and hit F2 to ...
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Keyboard and Mouse don't work
I have a desktop that runs Windows XP. All of a sudden the mouse and keyboard stopped responding(they are both microsoft wireless).
The first thing I tried was to change the USB port of the ...
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Mouse Pointer suddenly walks off to upper left screen corner
I have experienced the following problem on many different PCs and many different operating systems. It seems to only arise when using an external optical mouse (arbitrary manufacturer).
I experience ...
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Why are optical mouse LEDs red? [closed]
Why do most optical mice use red LEDs?
Is it necessary that a mouse's LED is red?
What other colors can/can't be used?
Does using another color changes the main design of the mouse?
Does it makes ...
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TV Monitor dims when mouse cursor moves 75% from center
Only happens if either nothing is open or certain web pages are open. Windows 7 64-bit, samsung un22d5003 monitor.
Can't find any monitor settings and all my drivers are up-to-date.
The Intel ...
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right-click “mouse gestures” on touchpad
Most touchpads support drag-and-drop (dragging with the mouse left button) using a double-tap action.
Many useful software add-ons (like Firefox FireGestures) define complex gestures based on ...
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Child bumped my mouse, turned laptop off instantly, now can't restart [closed]
P Probook 4520S laptop using logitech wireless mouse. Our child bumped my hand, which made me click something (unknown), which immediately shut down my computer, no warning, no message, just an ...
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Is Graphics tablet better than mouse for precise movements in terms of hand and wrist tiredness? [closed]
I usually do works which require precise cursor movement. For example I need to move the cursor to a specific pixel on the screen precisely. However since I need to grab the mouse with my entire hand, ...
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Enabling mouse in tmux conflicts with paste in X [duplicate]
This question is similar but not identical to tmux -- any way to enable scrolling, but not selection?
I'm using tmux within gnome-terminal. When I use setw -g mode-mouse on in tmux to enable ...
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How to enable scrolling in Visual Studio when it's run under admin privileges
I'm the owner of a Microsoft touch mouse and like it a lot. However it seems that it stops working when I startup Visual Studio 2012 under admin privileges. I read somewhere that I also need to start ...
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How do I select entire words with Tmux's mouse mode?
The default tmux mouse mode seems to select words by character -- this is a little too granular for me; if I click [or double-click] in the middle of a word, I'd like it to start selecting the entire ...
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How does the mouse + ncurses work over ssh?
I'm running cygwin on Windows 8 x64 using the mintty interface. I ssh into my Solaris 11.0 server and ran mc (GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.6). To my surprise, when I accidentally clicked on a portion of ...
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Disable startscreen *being triggered* by touchpad/mouse [duplicate]
I happily run stock Windows 8 on my own devices, i am not another "i do not get/like the start screen" whiner.
A laptop running windows 8.0 is hooked up to a 2nd display (LED wall, or a beamer) to ...
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Mouse freezes after ~10 minutes
On my other computer which is Win XP, after about 10 minutes -- sometimes longer, sometimes much shorter -- the mouse freezes. I can still move the cursor using the numerical keypad to navigate. There ...
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Closing laptop lid and using external display causes mouse to move on it's own
I plugged my ASUS Taichi Laptop into an external monitor via the VGA Adapter that it comes with. It was working fine, but then I configured a power option so I could shut the lid without it going to ...
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Quickly toggle between left- and right-handed mouse settings [duplicate]
I use the mouse in its left-handed setting, on Windows. However, I often have to collaborate hands-on with someone else in my computer, and I'd prefer to use the right-handed setting in those ...
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How to switch to the last used tab by clicking on the selected tab in Firefox?
I prefer to use mouse when I browse. I mostly use Opera for that, it has all the features I need, out of the box. Opera has a very good feature: when I click on the currently selected tab, it switches ...
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Can't Locate Toshiba touchpad driver on Windows 7 Home Premium [closed]
Where is the mouse driver located on the C: drive on a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)?
The touchpad (or mouse) on a Toshiba laptop won't work as of yesterday after installing ...
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Why is the context menu only halfway appearing?
When I right-click, the outline and shadow of the context menu shows up, but the actual menu doesn't show, nor even a placeholder of blank/white space. How would I go about fixing this?
I've attached ...
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Ignore area on touchpad
I recently purchased a Lenovo y500 and installed Debian wheezy 64-bit on it with no issues. The problem I'm having is with the touchpad. In Windows (dual boot) it ignores movements on the lower part ...
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Is it possible to show key presses and mouse input visually?
Is there a way to visually show if keypresses and programmed mouse-buttons are properly sending their input?
Obviously, my keyboard is registering letter keys. But I can't tell whether my programmed ...
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OSX: Move cursor between screens smoothly
I have multiple screens and would like to go to the other screen smoothly and not to move too much with my hand to get to the next screen. Some people have the opposite problem that their cursor jumps ...
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windows 8 tablet, touch screen and old applications
Yes it's true! old foxpro 2.6 for windows applications are still alive and working great on windows 8 32-bit. However there is a problem on tablet pc: tapping does NOTHING in those old applications.
I ...
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Some PowerPoint 2007 slides have a tiny scrollbar and scroll a long time with mouse/mousewheel
Seemingly out of the blue, slides 5 through 8 on a PPT I was working on starting exhibiting very strange behaviour. On slides 1-4, and 9-40, the vertical scroll bar is a reasonable size. When I ...
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Windows 8 random mouse bug
I have been experiencing a quite annoying bug on all three of my windows 8 PCs. The bug is the following:
The mouse randomly gets positioned on the screen when I do not move it for 1-2 minutes. The ...
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Can bluetooth peripherals work without the USB device?
I have a keyboard and mouse that came with a USB "transmitter/receiver" (for lack of the right word). My PC has bluetooth built in. Is there a way to get my keyboard and mouse to talk directly to the ...
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Cursor disappearing while watching fullscreen video - Mac OS X
I'm using a MacBook Pro Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I have a monitor connected to my computer and when I watch a fullscreen video on Safari, and want to do other stuff on the built-in monitor, the cursor ...
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Mouse pointer missing in SSH windows
I have a problem with the mouse pointer when I use SSH to launch a remote window.
I run ssh -CY somehost and then run some command that opens a new window. When the mouse pointer enters that new ...
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OSX mouse moves randomly
Some data points
By moving randomly, I mean the mouse cursor will occasionally move without user interaction. It looks more like a random jump.
It does not randomly click (luckily...).
I haven't ...
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Smallest mouse controller
I am a simple programer, exploring out from my usual space for the sake of curiosity and development so please bear with me. First if I am in the wrong exchange then please guide me in the right ...
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Asus Smart Gesture auto disable touchpad when mouse connected, conflicts with touch display
I am using a Laptop with a touch display and a mouse touchpad. Asus Taichi21 (smaller one).
The touchpad is not that optimal, so using the keyboard sometimes lead to a mouseclick (then hand areas ...
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Changing the mouse pointer for Windows Journal from a dot
How can I change the mouse pointer for Windows Journal from a dot to something more visible like a mouse pointer?
I am using bamboo tablet so it is difficult to keep track of the dot.
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Broken mouse cursor on main monitor, Windows 7 64 Bit, ATI Radeon HD 7870
Quite a while ago my graphic card died and I had to buy a new one. I decided for an ASUS Radeon HD 7870.
While I love the power of the graphic card and have no problems while playing games, I'm ...
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How to directly store handwritten style notes in Ubuntu? How to achieve handwriting to text in Ubuntu Desktop? [closed]
One of my family member is very slow in typing but needs to write physics and mathematics contents around 25 A4 size sheets per day.
We have a desktop computer with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Is there any ...
