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drymisty

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Registered: 2016-02-13

Posts: 5

How do I increase mouse sensitivity and disable mouse acceleration?

Hi.
How do I increase mouse sensitivity without having mouse acceleration?
All the Google search I did suggests to increase mouse acceleration, but I don't want that.
I'm not a native English speaker, I don't know if I explained myself, sorry in advance.

Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: How do I increase mouse sensitivity and disable mouse acceleration?

Hi, you can take a look at Mouse Acceleration

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,840

Re: How do I increase mouse sensitivity and disable mouse acceleration?

Whether and how you can increase the mouse resolution vastly depends on the actual model.
Acceleration is done by skipping pixels depending on the length of the running motion vector - increasing the "sensitivity" in software by constantly skipping pixels would be a bad idea for obvious reasons (you can't reach some pixels…)

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: How do I increase mouse sensitivity and disable mouse acceleration?

See the line:

Option "AccelProfile" "flat"

After that, a GUI (e.g. XFCE) might still call the mouse *speed* "acceleration", confusingly