too sensitive, shaky mouse

[Colin Law]

On 16 September 2013 14:54, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a "new" used mouse which seems way too sensitive.  I turned the
> sensitivity down to the minimum in Unity (12.04 LTS), but it's no better.
> I ran xinput and checked that mouse moved -- seemed normal, but then I
> don't know how I would distinguish bad behaviour.
>
> Any other settings I can make or test?  It's an HP mouse, and it just kind
> of shaky.

Do you mean it is dithering or just that it moves too quickly.  If
moving too quickly then run
xinput --list
to find the id of the mouse, then you can run
xinput set-prop <mouse_id> "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 2
to halve the speed, or 3 to make it even slower.  <mouse_id> is
obviously the id of the mouse.  Once you have found a good speed then
you can put the command in a script, make it executable, and add it to
the session startup by running
gnome-session-properties
and adding it to the list.  There may well be better ways of making it
permanent.

Colin

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> Thufir
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