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spoulson
Asked: 2009-05-22 10:02:46 +0800 CST

How do I adjust mouse sensitivity on Dell Mini9 running Ubuntu?

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I recently picked up a Dell Mini9 netbook running Ubuntu 8.04. It runs great and I love it, but there's one glaring issue out of the box. The trackpad mouse and mousewheel are way too sensitive.

I'm able to adjust mouse acceleration and sensitivity in the Ubuntu mouse controls, but even when set to minimum it's still too fast. Also, there's no controls to adjust the mouse wheel speed, which is almost unusable.

Is there any other way I can adjust it? Firmware settings maybe?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I do not believe the fact that it is a Dell Mini9 should matter, assuming it is a standard synaptics touchpad, and the standard KDE/Gnome GUI adjustments aren't doing the job, try the tutorial outlined here: HOWTO: Adjust touchpad speed.

    It involves editing the xorg.conf.

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  2. You can use synclient from the command line.

    I use this as a part of my /etc/rc.local to make my touchpad more sensitive. The command I use is:

    synclient FingerLow=9 FingerHigh=12

    You can get a list of all the touchpad parameters with 

    synclient -l

    I use Ubuntu 9.04, but I think in Ubuntu 8.04 you may have to add a parameter to something under /etc/udev/rules.d or perhaps xorg.conf to allow the trackpad to interface with synclient.

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