gnome control center mouse settings don't work in other window manager

[Gerald Gilbert-Thorple]

I would like to use gnome control center from Fvwm window manager. But the mouse speed does not respond at all to what I set unless I am running it from the default ubuntu window manager. I tried running gnome control center using different XDG environment variables as suggested by some posts, but this had no effect.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I don't think we will ever support that. Aside from anything else, even if gnome-control-center did successfully change a setting, it would not be remembered in the next Fvwm session.

A simple solution is for you to configure your mouse from a Terminal window:

  xinput
  xinput list-props N where N is your mouse device ID
  xinput set...

[Gerald Gilbert-Thorple (gxgilthor)]

Hi Daniel, yes I was going to resort to that if necessary. Thanks!

One comment though, I found that the setting was not even saved before I switched to Fvwm.
I had to redo the mouse speed each time I logged into an Ubuntu session.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Anything you want run automatically on login, try putting it in a script called:

  ~/.xsession

or

  ~/.xinitrc

[Jim Cline (jcline-physics)]

yes I know that. I'm talking about gnome-control-center not saving the
settings.

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Daniel van Vugt wrote:

> Anything you want run automatically on login, try putting it in a script
> called:
>
> ~/.xsession
>
> or
>
> ~/.xinitrc
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895217
>
> Title:
> gnome control center mouse settings don't work in other window manager
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I would like to use gnome control center from Fvwm window manager.
> But the mouse speed does not respond at all to what I set unless I am
> running it from the default ubuntu window manager. I tried running
> gnome control center using different XDG environment variables as
> suggested by some posts, but this had no effect.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1895217/+subscriptions
>

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's unexpected, but also not important to Fvwm. If you want to discuss that problem about Ubuntu Gnome sessions only, then please open a new bug.