====== Mouse Sensitivity ======
List all input devices:

  xinput 

or
  
  xinput list
  
  
List properties of a selected input device:
  xinput list-props <device-id>
  
Example:
  xinput list-props 268
  
Set property:

  xinput set-prop <device-id> <property> <value>
  
  xinput set-prop 12 268 5.0


===== Set Speed =====
This example assumes that you have a notebook with a touchpad.
<sxh>
$> xinput list
 Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
</sxh>

The touchpad has the id 12.

Listing the properties of the touchpad shows that the property 268 is used for speed.
<sxh>
xinput list-props 12
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
	Device Enabled (141):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (143):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	Device Accel Profile (267):	1
	Device Accel Constant Deceleration (268):	2.500000
</sxh>

The touchpad has a current speed value of 2.5. If we want to make the mouse move more sluggish we need to set a high value like 10.0. If we want a very fast mouse we need to set the value to something like 1.0. Feel free.


===== Links =====
http://askubuntu.com/questions/172972/configure-mouse-speed-not-pointer-acceleration

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