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Zatael

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Registered: 2013-06-02

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synaptics not obeying x config file

Hey

I'm struggling with an issue where my mouse sensitivity is faster horizontally than vertically.

I read up on the man pages for synaptics and found
what seems to be the solution. I added the following
into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

option "VertResolution" "1"
option "HorizResolution" "1"

I have also tried other numbers but whatever I do theres
no change.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks

Trilby

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

I have also tried other numbers...

But have you tried different numbers for each Vert and Horiz (e.g. vert != horiz)?

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Zatael

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

Yes,
It's a ratio so it only makes sense to try different numbers

I've tried 2, 3
3, 2
2, 100
1920, 1280

Last edited by Zatael (2016-02-02 17:57:56)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

synaptics is for the touchpad rather than the mouse.

Try these methods instead:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

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Zatael

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

synaptics is for the touchpad rather than the mouse.

Try these methods instead:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

im on a laptop. It is a touchpad

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

For touchpad try the wiki to find out some clue. In particular about synclient.

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Zatael

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

synclient shows the outputs I would expect, but no functional change

TheSaint

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

In KDE there's a nice tool for setting the touchpad. What's your DE ?
The synclient manpage says that is possible to modify

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Zatael

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

I'm running under Gnome 3

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

GNOME does not honour settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

EDIT: I think anyway, it's been a while since I've used it.

It would have been useful to know your desktop from the start

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-02-03 20:20:54)

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Xabre

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

If you have xf86-input-synaptics and xf86-input-libinput, latter one is selected first (at least that's what Gnome does over here), thus all synaptics related configs are irellevant.

Zatael

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

I only have xf86-input-synaptics

# pacman -Qs xf86-input-libinput
# 

also synclient does not have any reference to "VertResolution" or "HorizResolution" and if I try to set it, complains it doesn't know about the variable.
But these are listed in the synaptics manpages (synclient -l output does not list them)

TheSaint

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Re: synaptics not obeying x config file

It could be the case that isn't a real synaptics touchpad.
Anyways, try to find more details on the man page

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