Ps4 Controller On Pc Touchpad As Mouse
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Despite having followed the directions on The Wiki, the Dualsense's touchpad is still acting as a mouse / touchpad.
On interesting thing is that inside Input Settings of KDE SystemSettings, the "Touchpad" section is turned on when Dualsense is connected.
So, if I disable the Touchpad from KDE SystemSettings, then DualSense's touchpad is not working anymore.
Should the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-joystick.conf should be modified to somewhat regarding touchpads?
I use Ubuntu 14.04 on a laptop, usually with an external usb mouse and keyboard and screen connected. Sometimes, however, I unplug all of them and move the laptop and keep using it with the builtin keyboard and screen and touchpad.
At random times it happens that the touchpad stops working (but if I plug the usb mouse, the usb mouse does work). Though this happens very rarely, when it does it's a great annoyance, as I'm forced to reboot if I need the touchpad to work again.
Is there some workaround that I can try, such as killing some process that would automatically restart, or some command that would cause the touchpad driver to restart or refresh or something? Anything that may "wake up" the touchpad without having to reboot?
Next: Notice where it says id=X in one long column for every input device. You want to find the device id that corresponds to the input device you want to disable (Maybe something that sounds like "touchpad"). Then replace X in the following command with the id number representing the input device you want to disable:
Note: If you're not sure which device id you should use to disable the touchpad, then you can find out by testing random id's and seeing if your mouse pad still works. Make sure you are NOT DOING ANYTHING IMPORTANT. Save all your work and be prepared to restart your computer if you do something like disable your keyboard. (You may have trouble trying to enable it again if you can't type into the terminal.
Reason: I desperately needed an answer to this problem because the problems I was experiencing with my touchpad made doing any kind of work impossible. Suddenly, at some random moment when using my laptop, for apparently no reason, my touchpad goes into some kind of "special mode". Merely moving one finger on my touchpad would cause the screen to scroll, instead of actually moving the cursor of the mouse on the screen so it was impossible to get the mouse to hover over anything in broswer without considerable coordinating efforts to account for the scrolling screen and non moving mouse. I wanted to find a way, WITHOUT RESTARTING THE LAPTOP, to reset the touchpad. On the plus side, resetting the touchpad with the method above actually fixes my problem.
Update:To make resetting the touchpad even easier, I made a hotkey for the above listed commands. When my touchpad goes on the fritz, I simply do the key combination ctrl+super+r and it does the reset for me. Quick and easy.
-Inside this file, put in two of the three (the last two) previous commands listed above except, instead of using an X id number for the device, since it's subject to change with added peripherals (maybe??) you can do use this instead:
-Now what you do, you replace the X (which was an id before) for xinput disable X and xinput enable X with the name corresponding to that id inside single quotes. For example, from the above, if you wanted to do it for id=13, my touchpad device, you would use:
I was having that problem with one laptop repeatedly until I noticed that the touchpad of that computer had its own On/Off switch which I must have been hitting by accident. Notably, the switch did not help to turn it back on. I just became careful not to press it, and before long I took to using an external wireless keyboard with integrated wireless touchpad, and I haven't had that problem since.
UPDATE: (Note: link below broken, solution is above)Since posting this "solution" I posted a comment which apparently met the user's needs. Having only just now learned that the comments remain only temporarily and are automatically deleted, I'm reposting the content of the useful comment below that it may be preserved for others:
What may be easier, and which worked for me, was reloading the driver in the kernel. The following code first finds the name of the kernel driver which handles the touch pad, then unloads it with rmmod and reloads it with modprobe. Note that you need to be root to run these commands, so run sudo su first.
For some unknown reason: This laptop's touchpad will auto-magically become non-functional (yet is still running AFAIK). I have attempted to remove the USB-based optical mouse; yet run into the same issue.
Similar problem Latitude 7430, Ubuntu 22.04. Touchpad would randomly stop or require I use 4 fingers on it at once to move. Building on the solution outlined by user3499524, I completed a short script:
Yes it happens remotely and locally. The output I sent was from a local test. Is there a way to just reinstall the mouse and touchpad part? This is on several HP G72t laptops that were fine until the upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04.
That being said, I have my laptop close enough to my keyboard that I can play the keys with one hand and operate the trackpad with my other, and the hour I spent with the AudioSwift demo this afternoon was a great deal of fun. Alchemy's XY pads, in particular, are a breeze to automate and play expressively.
Still, I've been testing Audioswift against the Lightpad for the past few days and I think Audioswift gives you better control of modulation, especially when using an XY pad. While the Lightpad does all kinds of awesome things (not regretting the purchase at all), it requires a decent amount of pressure to trigger and your fingers don't always slide smoothly across the silicone surface.
Since Audioswift uses the trackpad, modulating an XY pad is smooth as hell. At least it was for me. Also, Audioswift lets you switch between 1-finger, 2-finger, and 3-finger XY movement. So, you can modulate both of Alchemy's XY pads and its Tranform Pad just by switching the number of fingers you're using.
About the issue with the Magic Mouse or working with two trackpads, I've released a new version 1.2.0 that has a workaround for this. Because of limitations with the macOS framework used to make AudioSwift work properly, a trackpad can't be used solely for the MIDI controller without moving the mouse pointer. That's why the mouse pointer is frozen when the console is on, to avoid accidental clicks and drags over other apps.
In the new version however, the first trackpad that is touched when the console is on will be the MIDI controller. Then, when the second device surface is touched (another trackpad or a Magic Mouse), the console will be turned off automatically so you can get control of the mouse pointer again without the need of pressing the escape key or the hotkey.
Here is a guide for working with a trackpad in Logic Pro. I review some of the multitouch gestures available, different setups using the trackpad as a MIDI controller with AudioSwift, and how to customize shortcuts with gestures using BetterTouchTool. I share a trick for moving the playhead with a tap anywhere in the Arrange window, not only over empty spaces.
For the most part, this section will attempt to only mention things that work equally for PC and Console. As such, this will assume you have already set up and enabled your controller. If you are a PC player and still need to set that up, please head to the PC Setup section first.
You need to open up your menu, this should be on your Start button, also known as Options on PS4 and PS5. Then use your d-pad to go to the System Configuration. Then press your confirm button; this is by default X on PS4/5 controllers, and A on xbox controllers.
Going into first person view is largely not helpful, as it will make it difficult to view certain battle mechanics, and there is a character configuration to allow that by zooming in all the way. If you do need the change camera for a specific reason, such as perhaps recording a video or for Role-Play, you can temporarily change it, but for regular gameplay there is just no need for that.
If you do decide to disable the virtual mouse, make sure you are not currently in virtual mouse mode. If you accidentally somehow manage to disable the virtual mouse in system config while you are in virtual mouse mode, you will need to re-enable it first before you can exit virtual mouse mode.
Both the console and PC versions support changing the look of the virtual mouse, though the options do differ between both. In both cases, they are found in the Mouse Settings section of the System Configuration.
In addition to the Virtual Mouse, there is also the Touchpad - if your controller supports it. Any time the virtual mouse is mentioned in this guide, you should assume it also applies to the Touchpad.
HUD Copy helps you resize the display without changing it on the PS4. Essentially, it keeps a special HUD layout for your PS Vita. However, should you need to copy the HUD layout from the PS4 to the PS Vita (or vice versa), you can specify the source and use Copy.
In addition to the PS Vita, PlayStation users can also use any device that is able to download the PlayStation remote app. If the device supports using a controller, the PlayStation remote app should be able to recognize it. Both the PS4 and PS5 controllers are supported by the app.
Depending on your cross hotbar setup, you might notice some discomfort playing with touch controls. If you make use of the touchpad functionality frequently, you make want to consider making an alternate setup on another cross hotbar set.
Of course PC (and Mac) users can also play remotely via remote control software such as Teamviewer. Typically this would be from another computer, such as a laptop, but some of these applications might also have an app for mobile devices. These would effectively be doing mouse and keyboard controls via the touch screen.
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