Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Decent sensitivity for mouse with Ubuntu

Having acceleration/sensitivity set to their slowest/lowest settings in System Settings, for a lot of mouse devices such as the otherwise so excellent Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000, the sensitivity/moving speed is still far too high.

Here is how to fix that (from Ubuntu 12.04):

First, you will need your mouse ProductName and ID:
$ xinput list

...
 Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 id=14 [slave  pointer  (2)]
...


Test a new sensitivity level (14=device id, 1.7=level - higher level lowers sensitivity):

$ xinput set-prop 14 "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 1.7


Create a new xorg file for the new setting:
$ sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mymouse.conf
Containing the following:

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier      "Microsoft Mouse 5000" # Whatever you want
   MatchProduct    "Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000" # Product name from xinput list
   Option          "ConstantDeceleration" "1.7" # The same value as xinput
EndSection

Setting now sticks after reboot.

3 comments:

  1. hi, thank you for your help but for not as skill users you should explain in more detail,

    what do the lines do??

    Whatever you want

    The same value as xinput

    Product name from xinput list

    im guessing a nick name?
    a id=number?
    the touchpad name??

    i hope im right because i have save the file already

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  2. The text written after the # symbol is the explanation for the respective line. Just keep the file as is (with or without the explanations) and modify the "1.7" to what works/test with you.

    The lines with $ should be written in the Ubuntu terminal (without the actual $).

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