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Running 16.04 on new Lenovo X1. Apparently it has a high-definition ALPS touchpad which makes it incredibly slow, even with the highest setting through "System Settings>Mouse and Touchpad".

I installed dconf-editor (very handy tool) but the speed value is already maxed out. All other mouse-features work, but the slowness issue renders the touchpad nigh unusable. Aargh, first new computer in years.

To clarify: Accelleration works fine, it's the slow, exact movements (like drawing, constricting a sketch in FreeCAD) that require me to move across the entire pad, lift, and move again...

Would a different distro (Debian?) or window-manager (Xfce?) make any difference? or switch back to 14.04? (used to run Debian 15 years ago...)

Thanks,

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you can use this command:

xset m 50 1

Where m stands for setting the mouse and the first integer represents the acceleration and the second represents the threshold.
check this answer for more information.

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