GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 746789
RFE: Trackstick mouse acceleration slider
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:00:13 UTC
The tracksticks ("pointing stick", "trackpoint", ...) that are in most of the Lenovo Thinkpads and some of the Dells have a different feel to touchpads and mice. On top of that they tend to differ between the various laptop models, e.g. the *40 series changed the sensitivity so the out-of-the-box behaviour is slower than before (and not just on Linux) https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Trackpoint-quot-too-slow-quot-proglem-of-X1-Carbon-Gen-2/td-p/1603962 This is an RFE for a separate slider for the trackstick pointer acceleration so it's independent of the mouse acceleration. Like we already have for the touchpad.
I definitely like this idea and it should be implemented for GNOME 3.18. I'm used to use mouse on my desk, but elsewhere I use trackpoint. I'm not also satisfied with common slider for both, because I like trackpoint to be really fast, otherwise I fell pain in my finger after long work. But if the slider is on fast, mouse is for me too fast...
What's needed to get this done? the usual? designs for control-center first?
The usuals... JFYI I don't plan to implement this. I used to be a default assignee, but I am not no more. I am moving my focus elsewhere, thus I've reset the assignee on all the bugs.
+1 for this. With Wayland, one can't use xinput to change per-device settings, so the only option is to make it possible to use Gnome's own settings for this. IMO Gnome 3 is otherwise quite a nice environment, but I would like some more configurability.
And if you do this, please make enough adjustment range for it. At least on some machines I feel that even the fastest setting is somewhat sluggish for the pointing stick.
Duplicated in #746789
Oops, wrong bug link ending in 89. Ignore above (linking to this bug). Duplicated in 789989
*** Bug 789989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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