gaming mouse way too sensitive (too fast!)

[fuzzybyte]

I have a SteelSeries Ikari laser mouse which is rated for 3200cpi and so is very sensitive. I have tried to set mouse sensitivity and acceleration in gnome mouse panel to zero without any affect, it still goes way too fast for any normal desktop usage.

How can I slow down my mouse?

(I know, I could just turn down the sensitivity in the mouse itself, but I was able turn down the sensitivity down in Windows, so I want to do the same in Linux.)

[taurolyon]

If you're dual-booted to windows, log into windows, load up the mouse's software, and turn down the DPI.

I had a similar problem with my Steelseries Warcraft mouse running at 3200dpi (way to "touchy."), I turned it down to 1800 and it's alot better in gnome.


EDIT: Ack, sorry for rezzing an old post.. didn't see the date... (Was trying to find some support for my mouse....)

[Tamale]

use this:

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

[cosmic_cow]

You can script this and make it automagically grab the device id, too:

#!/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

Just save that into an executable bash script.

[oldos2er]

Old thread closed, please don't bump old threads.