How do I fix the mouse after pairing with Bluetooth?
I have a laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it.
I paired a Bluetooth mouse with it, which caused the touch pad on the laptop to stop working.
After the computer was suspended over night, I tried to use the mouse when it said:
Mouse is trying to access your computer, grant access?
But I can't click the buttons as now neither the touch pad nor the mouse works.
I can't alt+ tab to the window as it opens under the other windows and does not show in the list.
I tried enabling mouse control via the keyboard using Universal Access
but I don't have a keypad on my laptop.
Good question. Here is a workaround.
- Open a terminal. Use the windows key to open the HUB and type
terminal
and use the arrows keys to open a terminal. - Type the command
xinput
in the terminal. That will give you a list of the input keyboard and pointer inputs on your computer. It will look something like the table below. - Find the entry that says
touchpad
and enable it as follows. You can enable it by typingxinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 1
(set-prop
means set the property and the1
meansput it on
). To switch it off, for instance, you would usexinput set-prop 16 "Device Enabled" 0
. - Hit the button you want and enjoy control over your computer. Find out whether the error occurs again. If so, google, ask a question here or file a bug (in that order).
This is the table you will see in step 2:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
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