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shak

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

[SOLVED] Increase mouse speed/acceleration doesnt work

Hi guys

I have a Microsoft Trackball Explorer and i am trying to increase its speed. On windows i used to drag the slider of mouse speed ti max but to my limited knowledge this is not easy to be done on linux and acceleration is prefered. I am using openbox

I tried to set the accelrration to 4/1 and threshold 0 using xset like in the wiki

To get the current values, use:

$ xset q | grep -A 1 Pointer
To set new values, type:

$ xset m acceleration threshold

It confirms that the change has been made
But nothing changes in terms of speed or acceletation. any ideas how to do this?

Last edited by shak (2019-07-22 18:23:41)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 50,927

Re: [SOLVED] Increase mouse speed/acceleration doesnt work

a) ensure it's not a wayland session ("loginctl session-status")
b) try another threshold, "0" gets special treatment and I've no idea whether that might cause funky effects w/ trackballs.

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shak

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

Re: [SOLVED] Increase mouse speed/acceleration doesnt work

I have already tried other thresholds but they didnt work. I will check if it is a wayland session once i get back home

shak

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

Re: [SOLVED] Increase mouse speed/acceleration doesnt work

a) ensure it's not a wayland session ("loginctl session-status")
b) try another threshold, "0" gets special treatment and I've no idea whether that might cause funky effects w/ trackballs.

It seems i was using wayland session.

Using

$ xinput --set-prop <device id> 'libinput Accel Speed' <acceleration factor>

works like a charm. ANd also it is per device! So i can have different acceleration for different devices.