mouse speed VS touchpad speed

[fred smith]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:57:41PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:42:16 -0500
> fred smith wrote:
> 
> > In F14 there is only one dialog for adjusting mouse pointer speed, and
> > it adjusts both mouse and touchpad pointer speed.
> 
> The new xinput system can adjust all different pointers separately,
> but I don't think any gui controls have caught up.
> 
> Here's the silly script I run to set the touchpad acceleration on
> my logitech mini keyboard (I use the defaults for my regular mouse
> which seems to work OK, so I only need to modify the keyboard):
> 
> mini='Logitech Logitech BT Mini-Receiver'
> dnum=`xinput --list --short | fgrep "$mini" | fgrep pointer | \
>          sed -e 's/^.*id=//' | sed -e 's/[^0-9].*$//'`
> xinput --set-int-prop "$dnum" 'Device Accel Profile' 8 2
> xinput --set-float-prop "$dnum" 'Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration' 2.0
> xinput --set-float-prop "$dnum" 'Device Accel Velocity Scaling' 50.0
> xinput --set-ptr-feedback "$dnum" 4 18 10
> 
> I have to grep out the pointer device number because the keyboard
> looks like two devices with the same name (keyboard and pointer), so
> I need the device number to control the settings.
> 
> Incidentally, if the device is USB and you unplug it and plug it
> back in, you'll need to run the script again. I have a silly
> program for that too:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/software/xdbusd/xdbusd.html

Thanks, Tom. I'll look into this.


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