Joystick – How to Stop Joystick Acting as Mouse

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Joystick acts as a mouse, even when I'm playing a game that uses a joystick so I get random mouse events going on.

I plugged a joystick in to play Spiral Knights, also installed joystick and jcalibrate. Everything is working good, except by default the joystick moves the mouse around and the button activate mouse keys.

Now normally this would be good behavior if I'm on a Myth-box or something, unfortunately when I play Spiral Knights with joystick input I see my mouse cursor moving in the back ground and when I hit a button it thinks I'm pressing right-click so it minimizes everything. Also it creates folders and probably deletes stuff.

So, basically how the heck do I stop it from acting as a mouse?

Best Answer

Uninstall xserver-xorg-input-joystick.

It's a package to control the mouse with the joystick. I only installed once to test it and it was driving me mad, so maybe that's the problem. I think the joystick would work the same without it.

This process will work for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and older versions. For the newest versions please refer to this Answer by RolandiXor. Thank you.

Not tested by me, but found in a link provided at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393425, I hope this may help.

Install joystick and jscalbrator

sudo apt install joystick jscalibrator

then run the calibration processes

jscal -c /dev/input/js0 (this is my joystick location, check yours)

jstest /dev/input/js0 (or wherever) If I remember correctly, this should return 0 for no error.

run jscalibrator

jscalibrator

and it should recognize the type of gamepad correctly and recognize all of your buttons, and axis

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There is also an application called jstest-gtk, which seems to do something like that, I post here a screenshot and the link for you: https://github.com/Grumbel/jstest-gtk (This software may need to be compiled in order to make it work)

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Ubuntu – How to map keyboard keys to joystick buttons using joy2key

You can use antimicro, it is a fork of joy2key and has a GUI, use this PPA for 12.04 to 15.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ryochan7/antimicro
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install antimicro

For 16.04 to 17.10 use this PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mdeguzis/libregeek
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install antimicro

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Configure Joystick or Gamepad on Ubuntu – How to Guide

This process will work for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and older versions. For the newest versions please refer to this Answer by RolandiXor. Thank you.

Install joystick and jscalbrator

then run the calibration processes

run jscalibrator

Ubuntu – How to map keyboard keys to joystick buttons using joy2key

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