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the maximum available speed for mouse is not very comfortable. i want to increase it.. how to do that?? is there an app to customize these sort of stuffs (preferable since I am new to ubuntu). thanks in advance

Organic Marble
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  1. Run in terminal xinput --list --short and find your mouse id (for me id=12)

  2. Run in terminal xinput --list-props 12 (change 12 for the right id)

  3. Find the id for the property Device Accel Constant Deceleration (for me 262)
  4. Run in terminal xinput --set-prop 12 262 0.1 (change 12 and 262 for the correct id)

The last number (0.1) is the important value. The smaller the number the faster your cursor moves (default value is 1.0). Play around with the values till you find one that works for you and then add the command to the startup applications GUI.

Good luck

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staad
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  • i get a weird message when i type in the last command. btw i entered th id of the touchpad since i am using touchpad. it's too long to paste the response here – Karthikeyan Saravanabavan Jan 26 '17 at 16:52
  • @KarthikeyanSaravanabavan what is the essence of the message. Can you give me a link to the message (ex. Pastebin, Dropbox, Github) – staad Jan 26 '17 at 21:17
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0H8TnBYDUhRThvU2dfcFhoX0U/view?usp=sharing

    this link will help i guess

     – Karthikeyan Saravanabavan Jan 27 '17 at 13:11
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0H8TnBYDUhRThvU2dfcFhoX0U/view?usp=sharing – Karthikeyan Saravanabavan Jan 27 '17 at 13:12
  • @KarthikeyanSaravanabava Sorry, my mistake. You have a syntax error, it should be xinput --set-prop not xinput --set-props. I have edited my answer – staad Jan 27 '17 at 17:11
  • it works. thanks. and how to add this command to the startup applications? can you help me in that also? – Karthikeyan Saravanabavan Jan 28 '17 at 09:58
  • @KarthikeyanSaravanabavan There is an application called Startup Applications. You can open it by searching in the dash (top left button). Once you open startup applications, simply press Add. In the command field add your command. Also give it a name in the name field. Press Add then close. Done!. You can also take a look at the beginning of this answer. There are a bunch of tutorials all over the Internet. Try figuring it out on your own next time before asking for help on stack overflow. – staad Jan 29 '17 at 11:49
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You can try using piper. It is available trough the Ubuntu repositories, so just install it via

sudo apt install piper

It has a GUI and it worked very well for my Logitech G402 on Ubuntu 20.04 to increase the mouse speed pretty much. You can change some settings for the buttons and even the LED are controllable.

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  • Upvoting this as every other answer wasn't able to increase my mouse speed, but changing the DPI with piper instantly worked (plus the other features are neat). – user2979044 Jan 24 '22 at 21:28
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The first place to speed up your mouse is in Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad -> Pointer Speed.

If that maximum is not enough try this answer : How can I increase the mouse pointer speed beyond the limits set by the Mouse preferences dialog?

Basically, add the following command to Startup Application and change the second number (2 in this case) to the desired mouse speed (2X faster, 3X faster...).

xset m 2 1

Good luck

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I found a way to fix it after an update from 16.04 to 18.04 (mouse became too slow after the update).

Like in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/876273/391744

but change instead just the acceleration profile from 0 to 2:

  1. Run in terminal xinput --list --short and find your mouse id (for me id=12)

  2. Run in terminal xinput --list-props 12 (change 12 for the right id)

  3. Find the id for the property Device Accel Profile (for me 267)

  4. Run in terminal xinput --set-prop 12 267 2 (change 12 and 267 for the correct id)

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  • The acceleration doesn't go above 1.0 on my system. To speed up my high dpi mouse I had to alter the transformation matrix as described here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/177640 – joe Oct 01 '19 at 09:22
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For a GUI tool try typing this into your Terminal:

dconf-editor

For (Ubuntu-Mate-18.04.02) I use the Default of (-1) for both. My settings are here:-

/org/mate/desktop/peripherals/mouse/motion-acceleration

/org/mate/desktop/peripherals/mouse/motion-threshold
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None of the above worked for me. I found a solution here:

  1. Find your device id using xinput --list --short
  2. Find Coordinate Transformation Matrix property id using xinput --list-props {device-id}
  3. Increase the speed (2x in this case) using: xinput --set-prop {device-id} {property-id} 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 (replace 2 with 1.5 if it's too fast).
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