At 10 my mouse was painfully slow I think that’s pretty much the bottom of the threshold (but it doesn’t hurt to play around a bit). The flag ‘default’ is used, the system defaults will be set.īy this I take it that the first number (accelNum) is the actual speed number.
Given, it will be interpreted as the acceleration. One orīoth parameters for the m option can be omitted, but if only one is Travel across the screen in a flick of the wrist when desired. This way, the pointing device can be usedįor precise alignment when it is moved slowly, yet it can be set to Xinput -set-ptr-feedback "device_id" accelNum accelDenom thresholdĪs far as what these numbers actually signify, I’ll quote the man page:īy default the pointer (the on-screen representation of the pointingĭevice) will go `acceleration’ times as fast when the device travels To change the sensitivity/acceleration, use the command I used #10, and all seemed to be working fine, so I didn’t explore further. I have not looked into this or figured out why it does. The one I was interested in was the Logitech G500 gaming mouse. ⎜ ↳ Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 id=12
XINPUT TEST COMMAND HOW TO
Unfortunately, in the systems I’ve primarily run (Debian and Ubuntu) I’ve not found it to be effective in any instance.Įvery GUI app in GNU/Linux has CLI roots, right? So I found xinput and figured out how to use it. How to set mouse/trackpad speed with xinput Posted: 09.06.12 | Author: cortman | Filed under: Debian Tutorials, Mouse & Keyboard | Leave a commentĪny distro using Gnome comes with gnome-control-center, which includes a dandy GUI utility for setting mouse speed.