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randomiranda

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Registered: 2025-02-23

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how to increase mouse sensitivity above maximum on wayland?

i'm currently on wayland using niri
on xorg, i could use the coordinate transformation matrix in order to increase my mouse sensitivity beyond the maximum

xinput --set-prop 9 "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 3.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 3.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000

but i don't see a simple way to do it on wayland
reading a bit of libinput documentation, it seems i can only apply matrices to tablets and such but not mice.
so is there any way to do this?

Last edited by randomiranda (2025-07-27 15:07:36)

jl2

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Re: how to increase mouse sensitivity above maximum on wayland?

Implementing the libinput stuff is left to the WM in wayland, check it's documentation.

If your WM does not support the option, it will not work.

What WM/DE do you use?

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randomiranda

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Re: how to increase mouse sensitivity above maximum on wayland?

like i said, i use niri. in the documentation, there's no such matrix config option for a mouse. no option for custom accel profile either

Last edited by randomiranda (2025-07-27 15:19:03)

jl2

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Re: how to increase mouse sensitivity above maximum on wayland?

Never heard of that one before, but the concept sounds so funny I should give it a try.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Con … ion:-Input - Can you try setting the same option as under 'tablet', but in the 'mouse' section?

And, does setting the mouse speed with a calibration matrix work? Because sway _still_ has no option to directly set the mouse speed, despite having multiple MRs that would implement it.

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randomiranda

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Re: how to increase mouse sensitivity above maximum on wayland?

putting the calibration matrix option in the mouse section does not work

jl2

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Re: how to increase mouse sensitivity above maximum on wayland?

Well, then open an issue on their github.

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