GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 747659
Mouse acceleration too fast with upgrade to 3.16
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:27:17 UTC
With the recent upgrade to GNOME 3.16 something about the mouse acceleration has changed. Its faster than before and its hard to move the mouse to the desired location when used to the old setting. As I'm only using an external USB mouse I don't have any acceleration options in the mouse settings menu, so there seems to be no easy way to change this. This has also been observed by others, see [1]. [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195919
Which xserver (input) driver are you using?
I'm using libinput version 0.13.0 on Arch Linux [1]. [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libinput/
I was using the same version with GNOME 3.14.x, so nothing about this library has changed since then.
"xset m default" fixed it for me.
I noticed a bug concerning Mouse Acceleration. When pushing the "Mouse Speed" slider to the minimum, or entering "-1.0" value for "Speed" in org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse (using dconf-editor) results in default speed instead of minimum speed. When I put "-0.999" value, it works as intended.
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