How do I install Neo2 on Chrome OS? - google-chrome-os

I tried using Neo2 on my Chromebook, but it is buggy and does not work. Any idea on a) how to fix this, b) how to install it manually (Chrome OS has a Linux terminal) or c) how to manually add a keyboard layout?
When activating Neo2 it does not type letters but activates numbers and arrow keys.
EDIT: it seems to be activating the fourth layer.

I will leave this question on here because it took me a while to figure out. The keyboard launches right away into the 4th layer. This can be fixed by pressing shift and alt. However, now I am struggling to use the 3rd layer. I am assuming this is because Chromebooks lack certain keys that are very important for the normal Neo2 layout. Any ideas on how to solve this?

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Can't move mouse with touchpad

As the title suggests, my touchpad won't move my mouse. I am therefore unable to select outputs of my commands, but I am able to take screenshots of windows. (Luckily I am used to using keyboard shortcuts)
I have no clue what caused this. I have recently updated my kernel from linux52 to linux53 and linux54. Falling back to either of those versions from linux54 hasn't helped. I have also recently been playing around with a Wacom tablet, using xsetwacom, but I believe my mouse has worked after this.
I know it's not a hardware issue, as libinput debug-events correctly detects my finger running over the trackpad:
The output of 40-libinput.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf is the following. I can't see any error there.
I tried blacklisting the i2c_hid, as suggested in the following question, but to no avail. It fixed an error claiming there was a duplicate mouse, which it decided to ignore. I thought this would help.
What is surprising is that I can click. I can't scroll or move the mouse, though. My trackpad lists the following settings. To my surprise, there is no Accel Speed there, and I can't manually set it with xinput --set-prop 14 'libinput Accel Speed' 1.0, as I need to specify the type and format. I don't know what these are supposed to be, and I don't know if the acceleration is the issue. I read that having a negative value would cause the mouse to never move, though.
Do you have any suggestions as to what to do? What does libinput do with the events after receiving them?
EDIT: Removing the blacklist i2c_hid from the modprobe returns the following Xorg log:
Making a copy of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ folder, and commenting out the Option "Ignore" "on" line fixed it.
Had to sudo pkill X after changing it, of course. A reboot would also do the trick.

IntelliJ/PhpStorm only switches keyboard layout by half

I'm having a strange problem with IntelliJ IDEA 16.1.2 running in Ubuntu MATE 16.04: when I switch between keyboard layouts, then normal typing works as expected, but any control key combinations use the wrong layout. Confused? So am I.
For years I've been using MATE (Linux Mint MATE, Ubuntu MATE) and switching between layouts (Norwegian Dvorak and US English) via MATE's built-in keyboard layout switcher (using CAPS LOCK to switch globally), and this has been working without a single hitch. I love it.
But now I started using IntelliJ, and I find that when I switch layouts, a o e u becomes a s d f as it should, but CTRL-X / C / V and all the others remain on the Dvorak key positions (that is, on qwerty you'd have to type CTRL+B / I / > in order to hit the CTRL-X / C / V on the Dvorak layout. Ditto for all other CTRL-any key commands such as Find, Print, etc.
This is bonkers! And it's only happening in IntelliJ IDEA and PhpStorm. I've never seen this before, and right now those are the only two apps on my system that are affected.
My keyboards are native QWERTY, and I have used the OS to specify Dvorak as the primary layout, with QWERTY as an option and a hotkey to toggle between them.
I use Dvorak almost exclusively; the only reason to have the other layout is for "guests": coworkers during pair work, and my wife on the systems at home.
Dvorak is working 100%, but the querty is not: the querty works for non-ctrl characters, but ctrl stays mapped to Dvorak
This is for the other way around, but may help.
I have seen a setting, where you can switch to dvorak, but key control keys in querty position. I think it is in the keyboard layout system-settings.

IntelliJ IDEA back/forward with mouse

I want to move back/forward between editor tabs, using the two additional ("virtual") mouse buttons I have (RAZER DEATHADDER BLACK).
In Eclipse it's possible by default.
In IDEA I go to File->Settings->Keymap->Main menu->Window->Editor Tabs.
There I have Select Next Tab with the deault Alt+Right shortcut.
Then I open the Add Mouse Shortcut.
In that dialog I try to assign the back button of my mouse but without success. It doesn't react at all.
Anyway, googling a bit I've found this thread. I quote Alexey Gopachenko which seems to be an employee of IntelliJ:
As stated above - we can't support buttons if JDK on your platform
does not support them - and obviously it does not.
Anyway, that is totally wrong. My platform does support these keys - I actually work with them, on the same platform, on Eclipse and any other app, so it's IDEA who ignores them.
I'd appriciate a solution - how do I assign these back/forward mouse buttons?
UPDATE #1
I've found out that IDEA uses its own JAVA distribution (C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.4\jre on Windows 7), instead of the system's one - WHY?!
I'm almost SURE that is the reason I cannot use extended mouse buttons.
I've tried to trick IDEA by creating a custom Windows shortcut. Didn't work. I've also tried to create a SYMLINK in windows to my other, system-wide JRE distribution. Didn't work as well.
If someone come up with an idea on how to make it work with the system's JRE instead of its own - I think that'd solve the issue.
UPDATE #2
The above update #1 is not the issue.
I also had the same problem under OS X El Capitan. I just tried to add a new Keyboard-Shortcut and pressed than the Button 4 on the mouse and this worked.
Back/Forward mouse shortcuts work fine for me with Razer Mamba mouse, for example Back action is assigned to Button4 Click and I can confirm that it is recognized in this dialog when I click on the Click Pad area:
If it doesn't work with your mouse for some reason, you can try to workaround the problem using the Razer Configurator macro or key assignments:
Use the assigned key in IDEA keymap settings instead of the mouse shortcut.
Note that Eclipse is SWT based while IDEA is Swing based, so mouse event management is completely different. If JDK cannot recognize your device button clicks, it will not work in any Java Swing applications (NetBeans, JEdit, etc). In some cases running IDEA under a more recent JDK version may help (if support for your device was added in the newer JDK release).
I'm experiencing the exact same thing suddenly.
I realized my most recent change was to start using idea64.exe rather than idea.exe.
I switched back, and my mouse buttons are working fine again.
So, while this is not a complete answer, it seems as if it has something to do with the 64-bit version.
If the Razer driver's button mapping feature doesn't allow different mappings for a particular program, you can just assign the buttons to the mouse button number choices (mouse button 4 / mouse button 5) and then install a third party app that does support mappings for particular programs, e.g. https://superuser.com/questions/562972/how-to-map-bind-mouse-button-as-keyboard-button-in-windows-7
This question helped me although I have a Logitech Marathon Mouse M705, so I thought that I would share the solution in case other Logitech owners was in search for this.
I have a similar problem with a Logitech mouse and idea64.exe
Fortunately their SetPoint software allows for program specific settings.
This setting will have to be deleted and then reconfigured whenever you update IntelliJ and get a new idea64.exe :-)
I am experiencing a very similar problem and wanted to share my findings. I just bought a new Logitech M705 mouse. Within intelli-j the scroll right and scroll left buttons do not work. The forward and backward buttons also do not work.
I typically run intelli-j as administrator because I need higher privileges to run various tomcat services. When logging in as that user (rather than right clicking and selecting run as admin) all the buttons work! Also, when running as my normal user all the buttons work.
Also very curious is that I have an older generation Logitech mouse (same model, M705). This mouse has no problems with the scroll buttons and forward-back.
My solution for now is to use intelli-j as the user I am logged in as.
Check out this little tutorial from BetterTouchTool here. Basically for some mice (like Logitech ones) using the settings application they come with you can map default button actions to clicks and in doing so set a button number and use it as normal.
This works for my Logitech Performance MX mouse.
You can add mouse shortcuts, just click on an action in keymap and add mouse shortcut.
Alternatively Ctrl+Tab brings up switcher, which may be less clicks to navigate.

TextMate: Keyboard shortcuts sometimes don't work, then work again after restart

I moved to Lion 2 months ago, and since then I sometimes encounter that a TextMate keyboard shortcut doesn't work anymore (which means: nothing happens), and then, after a restart of TextMate, it works again.
This time, it was CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + DOWN, which should trigger Cucumber's Go to current step command. After restart of TM, it worked again. I also experienced this with CMD+SHIFT+7 (which results in Cmd-/ on my swiss layout) for commenting out lines.
Any idea about what's the problem? As I mentioned in a previous post, for the commenting out shortcut it finally happened to be the application Skitch sometimes which blocks this commend and prevents it from being sent to TM. But this doesn't have to do with the restart scenario I have now.
Anyway, it would be nice to have OSX display some info box whenever a keyboard shortcut is pressed which tells what exactly was executed, so e.g. when pressing CMD+S it would tell "Save Document", or CMD+SHIFT+3 "Take Screenshot", etc., so you'd always know what was triggered and don't have to think a shortcut ended up in Nirvana... Maybe there is some application or OSX extensions that does this?
I've found that when this happens, there's a background process going on that is, for some reason, disabling some or all of your keyboard shortcuts. I also found that it's very easily remedied by typing Command-. (period) which tells TextMate to cancel the running background task.
Try it next time it happens and see if that doesn't at least ameliorate the problem. Fixing it would require figuring out what background task is getting wedged and either fixing or eliminating it.

Can I stop the mouse from interacting with the intelliJ IDEA switcher?

I often switch between editors in intellJ with Ctrl-Tab and at the same time I accidentally move the mouse (which is sometimes over the switcher), which means I end up choosing a random editor rather than the one I wanted.
Is there any way I can prevent the switcher from reacting to mouse input?
What OS and IDEA version do you use? I've tested with IDEA 10 on Windows and mouse events do not affect the Ctrl+Tab window at all.
If it still happens for you in the latest IDEA version, please file a bug with the steps to reproduce at: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/IDEA.
It's a known bug in IDEA versions before IDEA 10.