I have a Logitech MX Master 2s connected via Bluetooth to my Ubuntu 19.04. All buttons work with a charm, but I am not able to increase the speed. In the settings GUI it is already at the highest level, but the pointer moves still very slow and I have to drag the mouse all over my desk. When I change settings with xinput they reset after a reconnect. Is there a way to increase the pointer speed and keep this setting permanent?
You can install the unofficial driver logiops for Logitech mice and keyboard from github and increase the DPI settings in addition to the system mousespeed setting.
The following worked for my MX Master 2S with Ubuntu 18.04 and enabled me to use my thumb button, smartshift scrolling and individual dpi settings. However I think this might also work on later Ubuntu version or other Ubuntu-based OSes.
1. to clone repo from github execute (maybe you need to install git first). then navigate to that folder:
2. Follow build instructions from repo. This step needs build-essentials:
3. To create a system deamon which runs the driver in the background, copy the file
/lib/systemd/system/logid.service
(which was created there duringsudo make install
) to/etc/systemd/system/
.Alternatively, you can create the file
/etc/systemd/system/logid.service
with the content4. You probably want to configure the driver by editing the file
/etc/logid.cfg
. The following worked for my MX Master 2S. Other configs can be found on github or in the Archwiki. Here you can change the dpi manually in addition to adjusting the system mouse-speed setting.Note that the
name
of your specific mouse model can be found by running the commandsudo logid
. For example, the MX Ergo's name isMX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball
(yes, with a space at the end!).5. Finally enable the service to run on system startup and start the service:
And, if you ever change
/etc/logid.cfg
, for the changes to take effect you can run:Here's my config file for MX Master 2s. Just in case someone finds it useful (I fixed the name as it wasn't recognized in my Ubuntu 20.04 and added a scroll wheel speed multiplier as it was really slow on my machine):