mouse sensitivity control issues

[lyall]

thanks spacemonster

I have a IBM T23 laptop that the trackpointer was very slow and jumpy
I also use a usb mouse it acted the same.

after doing your instructions it works like is should.

Thanks again

[lyall]

thanks jmtdstoc

I have a IBM T23 laptop that the trackpointer was very slow and jumpy
I also use a usb mouse it acted the same.

after doing your instructions it works like is should.

Thanks again

[Tamale]

Can we please get a fix for this in 9.10 that doesn't involve command-line annoyances?

I just installed 9.10 and have a razer diamondback, and it's WAY too sensitive, even after moving both the acceleration and sensitivity sliders all the way down.. common people!

[Ian Sinclair]

Using 9.04, and the /etc/X11/xorg.conf files has no mention of mouse controls, deals only with video drivers. Using Kensington Optical Trackball and settings in Preferences - Mouse have no effect. Could I run the Kensington driver disc using WINE?

[Tamale]

Can we please get a fix for this in 9.10 that doesn't involve command-line annoyances?

I just installed 9.10 and have a razer diamondback, and it's WAY too sensitive, even after moving both the acceleration and sensitivity sliders all the way down.. common people!

this is at least a little easier:
http://patrickmylund.com/blog/loweri...n-ubuntu-9-10/

Open a terminal
Run the command: xinput --list --short
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Razer USA, Ltd DeathAdder Mouse id=6 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Razer USA, Ltd DeathAdder Mouse id=7 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Razer DeathAdder id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation 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=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell Dell USB Keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
Note the name of your device. In my case, manipulating ‘Razer DeathAdder’ worked.
Set the constant deceleration for the device:
xinput --set-prop "Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5
That’s it. You might have to play around with the value, but 5 slowed down my mouse sufficiently.

To see the current settings for the device:
xinput --list-props "Razer DeathAdder"
To turn off mouse acceleration:
xinput --set-prop "Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1
To perform the tuning automatically, I simply created a file containing the script below, ran chmod +x on it and added it to System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications in GNOME:

#!/bin/sh
xinput --set-prop "Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5
xinput --set-prop "Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1

[humina]

Thank you tamale, that did it for me! Just got a new mouse and it was unusable before.

I think a more permanent solution is to have some sort of custom udev configuration (or better yet a gui control for this setting somewhere). Until then I'm just going to use a startup script.

[cosmic_cow]

Automagical id grab variation to be used as a startup script:

#!/bin/sh

mouse=` xinput | grep DeathAdder | awk '{print $6}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="=";} {print $2}'`
xinput --set-prop $mouse "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5
xinput --set-prop $mouse "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1

[wildmanne39]

Thanks for sharing and please do not post in threads that have not had activity for a year or longer, since this is an old thread it has been closed.