"Massively" slow down the mouse -- Ubuntu 14.04

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 17:27 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> You can, or at least used to, be able to use the xinput command to
> adjust the mouse parameters.

Nice call!

xinput --list

...reveals that my mouse is device number 9

xinput --list-props 9

...reveals a bunch of likely-looking properties, especially "Device
Accel Constant Decceleration", with property number 267. It also shows
me that this property is currently set to the value 1.

xinput --set-prop 9 267 10

... slows my mouse right down. At 100 it's extremely slow, and at
higher values it's effectively stopped (but if you move the mouse far
enough you can still see movement - we are talking a metre though).

It looks like exactly what the OP needs.

If you play around with that and Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration you
can get pretty much the best of both worlds - a fast mouse when the
mouse is moved normally, and a slow mouse when it is moved slowly.

The xinput command would probably have to be added to the startup
sequence so that it is run at every boot.

I found this page very useful:

http://510x.se/notes/posts/Changing_mouse_acceleration_in_Debian_and_Li
nux_in_general/

Regards, K.

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