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.
$> 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)]
The touchpad has the id 12.
Listing the properties of the touchpad shows that the property 268 is used for speed.
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
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.