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No support of setting cursor speed (speed != acceleration)
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Mouse Settings

Comments

Description Yan Pas 2015-08-16 23:23:27 CEST
there is no settings via xfce gui of pointer speed. The only way to reduce it is via terminal:
xinput set-prop 8 279 2.0
where 8 is id of my input device
279 is Device Accel Constant Deceleration ( eual by default to 1.000000)

I'm shocked that there are still no such setting.
Comment 1 Yan Pas 2015-08-30 20:24:09 CEST
xinput --set-prop "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5

Example of discussions about this topic http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90572/how-can-i-set-mouse-sensitivity-not-just-mouse-acceleration

Placing '$ xinput --set-prop "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 0.8' to autorun helped me

Because of I'm gamer (first person shooters) I can't use acceleration in my system at all, it kills skill of fast aiming. 

Also Mouse for my netbook is very fast (due to it's small screen resolution), so there I set '$ xinput --set-prop "Microsoft Arc Mouse" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 1.4'

More proper way of systemwide configuration is creating file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-devicespeed.conf

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
    Option "ConstantDeceleration" "0.8"
EndSection
Comment 2 Yan Pas 2015-10-29 23:00:21 CET
Libinput dev said, that they have just implemented in their fresh libinput 1.1 flat profiles (without acceleration) (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92663)

Now, the only thing is left to implement it in mouse settings.

PS Pointer settings should be restructured.
They should look like this:
* flat/accelerated movement toggle
* Speed of pointer (works both in accelerated and flat modes)
* threshold (number of pixels for accelerated movement)
Comment 3 Spass 2018-05-05 17:54:33 CEST
I know that this bug report is pretty old, but it would be great if the developers would reconsider adding that option (mouse speed/sensitivity slider) to xfce4-mouse-settings. To be honest, I consider that feature to be an essential thing in mouse settings, I was very surprised to see that I don't have an option to change (slow down) my mouse speed/sensitivity (resolution?) in xfce4-mouse-settings.

I've installed Xubuntu 18.04 on my laptop (Dell E6410) which has two devices - touchpad and trackpoint, and both of them are way too fast to even operate comfortably.
Comment 4 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2020-05-28 12:50:42 CEST
*** Bug 16882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 23:03:17 CEST
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Bug #12140

Reported by:
Yan Pas
Reported on: 2015-08-16
Last modified on: 2020-05-28
Duplicates (1):
  • 16882 Enhancement request: mouse pointer speed setting

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
6 users

Version

Version:
4.12.0

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