Mousekeys too slow

**brubru777** · May 10th, 2012

Hello,

I've enabled mousekeys. However, it's unusable because it's much too slow. I have put the maximum acceleration and sensibility in the config panel but it didn't change anything.

Does anyone know how to make it work properly, please ?

**jamesmika** · May 20th, 2012

Same problem here. Totally unusable as it's too slow. Did not found a solution yet

**sydneyw** · June 9th, 2012

I'm having exactly the same problem. Ideas anyone? I tried changing the mouse speed to no avail. The cursor moves at about 9 pixels per second.

I'm using a gamer's keyboard (steelseries). Don't know if that makes any difference.

**eronde** · July 10th, 2012

Here the same problem.

In ubuntu 11 there was an option to increase the speeds of mousekeys, But I can't find the option in 12.

**TODDMAN** · August 9th, 2012

Same here! Is their a fix yet?

**sydneyw** · August 11th, 2012

You can play around with xkbset for the right settings. Found the answer here:

http://www.exuro.co.uk/2012/07/114/

Firstly open a terminal window and type the following to install the xkbset package:

sudo apt-get install xkbset

A simple one line command can then be used to configure the acceleration:

xkbset ma [delay] [interval] [time to max] [max speed] [curve]

For those new to command-line interfaces, the brackets imply that they need to be replaced by a numerical value, tailored to suite a particular use. I have recently used the following for my configuration:

xkbset ma 60 10 10 20 10