It's getting too complicated for me to follow which adjustments are affecting which other ones.Ĭan we please get a fix for this in 9.10 that doesn't involve command-line annoyances? fdi file thing, xset wouldn't recognize a fractional acceleration value like that. I can use the mouse as it is, but really would like to fix this. I have to use something like xset m 1/6 1 to get the thing slow enough for delicate work, and then of course I have to sweep/lift/drop/sweep to move longer distances, because moving the mouse faster just slows the cursor down even more. Xset m 1 1 resets the cursor speed to much too fast for my mouse. I did that it doesn't fix the issue though.
#Ubuntu disable mouse acceleration update#
Let's hope some future update to Gnome solves this problem and returns to like it was until Ubuntu 8.10.Īctually you did help the mouse is much more usable now than it was before. My Linux knowledge is very limited and I was just lucky in finding the link provided by bazuz'. Simply drag the mouse acceleration slider all the way to the bottom (or use xset 1 1 in a terminal). I had the same problem, after you've set up the fdi files, you can use the gnome mouse configuration tool in System - Preferences. Thanks again for the help so far, which has improved things at least.
#Ubuntu disable mouse acceleration how to#
If the mouse/cursor speed relationship is going to vary, it needs to be the opposite of this slow mouse speed should yield higher precision of the cursor position.Īny advice on how to achieve this will be appreciated. What I need is this: Mouse moves fast, cursor moves fast. If I really jerk the mouse wildly, the cursor may end up only a couple of hundred pixels away from where it started. If I swipe the mouse quickly, it will crash into my scanner after about 6 inches, and the cursor will be barely a third of the way across the screen at the most. What I mean: If I move the mouse slowly, it needs about 2.5 inches to get the cursor from one side of the screen to the other. This technique seems to put a maximum-speed limit on the cursor, regardless of how fast the mouse is physically moving. After mousing around for a few minutes, I'm understanding why this still seems a bit odd. Anyway, at least my mouse is actually usable now. I'm still not very clear on the differences between Adaptive and Constant, and so on getting much out of the X.Org Wiki requires a deeper understanding of what's going on there than I have. Ok, that seems to have done something, finally. If you want an even slower mouse use "10", for example. If you want a faster mouse use "3", for example. Note that the number "7" is what works for me.
$sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdiĪnd inside that file paste the following code: So, in order to use your mouse with acceptable speeds in Ubuntu 9.04 (or Fedora 11) just create a file by this command: but the second weblink he has given us WORKS!!! fdi file ?īabuz' has given us the solution for this problem!!! fdi files (changed x11_driver to "mouse"), it freezes my pointer until i unplug the mouse, how fun :)Īny idea how I should set up this. I tried this after reading a forum post about. The above has no effect on sensitivity, but the new settings do show in the "lshal" output. fdi files and i am trying to mess around with sensitivity and resolution settings though these.
Is there anything else I can do to make the mouse less sensitive? My touchpad on the other hand runs fine, accurate and proper sensitivity. I know a lot of other people have pointed out that the gnome mouse properties has no effect, but most of them are able to fix their issues using xset, but for me it is not lowering the sensitivity enough I have also tried variants of the "xset m" command (like "xset m 0 0") but found even with the lowest settings the sensitivity is really high making the mouse really irritating to use, especially for image editing. The sensitivity slider has no effect at all, decreasing the acceleration makes the mouse slightly slower, but not nearly enough.Īlso the mouse is detected with 32 buttons instead of the 7 it actually has ( according to "xinput list") However, the sensitivity is insanely high, even if I decrease the acceleration and sensitivity settings in System > Preferences > Mouse. The mouse is detected fine and the left, right and scroll buttons work flawlessly. My main mouse is a Razer Diamondback, a USB optical mouse. With both of these releases I have never been able to control the sensitivity of any USB mouse. The machine is a DELL Inspiron 9300 laptop. I am using ubuntu 9.04 fully updated, previously used 8.10.