impossible to drag objects using touchpad

[philipusizyx]

I recently bought an Acer Nitro 5 laptop, and unfortunately, it is impossible to drag objects using the touchpad—it may be mechanically damaged. It can only select a word or sentence by clicking, paste from the clipboard, and scroll through text. Is it possible to configure hotkeys for dragging objects in the Xfce environment?

[CharlesV]

Please post your QSI. ( MX Menu, Quick System Info, Copy for Forum, Paste here )

[philipusizyx]

what you mean "MX Menu" - screenshot of my MX Menu? Maybe enough only output of inxi command?

[Eadwine Rose]

You know where you can see all the programs? That is the menu button. And no, only a bit of inxi is not enough.


IF you want that, post

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inxi -Fxxxrza

In code tags, NOT as plain text.

Like so: [code]code output here[/code]

[philipusizyx]

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64 [6.1.140-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-37-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
    resume=UUID=<filter> resume_offset=794624 init=/lib/systemd/systemd
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.6_x64 Libretto April 13  2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-42 v: V1.18 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: RR model: Freed_RRS v: V1.18 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.18
    date: 06/18/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 23.9 Wh (76.4%) condition: 31.3/48.9 Wh (63.9%) volts: 15.0 min: 15.2
    model: LG 0x41,0x43,0x31,0x34,0x42,0x38,0 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
    level: v3 note: check built: 2017-19 process: GF 14nm family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x11 (17)
    stepping: 0 microcode: 0x810100B
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1495 high: 1600 min/max: 1600/2000 boost: disabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1505 2: 1495 3: 1486 4: 1368 5: 1368 6: 1600
    7: 1596 8: 1549 bogomips: 31938
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 code: Arctic Islands
    process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67ef class-ID: 0380 temp: 37.0 C
  Device-2: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm
    built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd class-ID: 0300 temp: 39.0 C
  Device-3: Quanta HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0408:a060
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") s-diag: 584mm (22.99")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: Najing CEC Panda LM156LF1L03 built: 2017 res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven LLVM 15.0.6 DRM
    3.49 6.1.0-37-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.1
    chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-37-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse) tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.1
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
    driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280 temp: 42.0 C
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 04ca:3016 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 11 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
    hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1024:8 sco-mtu: 50:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff
    link-mode: peripheral accept
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 37.6 GiB (4.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0 size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.26 GiB size: 915.57 GiB (98.31%) used: 37.6 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 9.67 GiB used: 730.5 MiB (7.4%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 39.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C watts: 6.00
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2667 libs: 1342 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mxtemp.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/pritunl.gpg] https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt bookworm main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slack.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/slacktechnologies_slack-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/softmaker.list
    1: deb http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt stable non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb https://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
    1: deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teamviewer-keyring.gpg] https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg ] https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_librewolf.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.sources
    1: deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams-for-linux-packages.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.teamsforlinux.de/debian/ stable main
Info:
  Processes: 357 Uptime: 2d 23h 5m wakeups: 19 Memory: 6.67 GiB used: 5.3 GiB (79.5%) Init: systemd
  v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[CharlesV]

In the MX Menu, open Mouse and Touchpad

On the Devices tab
- select your touchpad

On the Behavior tab make sure that
- Drag and Drop Threshold is set to something like 8 or 10
- Distance is set to around 5

[philipusizyx]

Thank you for advice but it didn't help me.

[CharlesV]

If you open any app, say Featherpad, put the cursor over the window title bar, and then click and and hold down on the window title bar, does the cursor turn into a hand?
( this takes approx 1 second on mine, might take 2 on yours.)

If it does, then can you drag then?

Edit: for better clarification.

[philipusizyx]

After click and hold down on the Featherpad window title bar nothing happened, I still can't drag (cursor don't turn into a hand).

[CharlesV]

Hmm... try creating a new user, then log in as that user and see if this persists.

If the new user is able to drag windows around, (ctrl+click hold and drag on a window title bar) then the issue is in your xfce configuration. Possibly something like:
- ~/.cache/xsessions
- a key map