same preference for multiple pointing devices

[laulau]

especially on a laptop using often times an external USB mouse, we cannot adjust parameters like sensitivity and acceleration separately.
it's very inconvenient when hardware sensitivity from those devices differs strongly, when switching from mobile to home use (with and without mouse)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi olaulau,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Dusan Maliarik (dusan-maliarik)]

This is still issue and it is becoming more relevant each day. Vendors of pointing devices (mouses) are switching to laser technology which also make mouses more sensitive as they have higher resolution.

Again common case here is using notebook with mouse, where we need to set treshold (sesitivity) for each one separately. It is possible to solve this by setting values in xorg.conf. But if you are using bluetooth mouse with no stable device file, it's even trickier.

I have to mention that XFCE has already done this in their mouse settings dialog. (see attachment)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317407

[laulau (olaulau)]

Sorry, I hadn't time to make more precises tests, but I can confirm, after trying Intrepid on many laptop, that sensitivity is the same for every devise.

I also think of a Dell utility that deactivate the touchpad when plugging in a USB mouse, It would be very convenient (can cause clicks when typing on the keyboard)

[Dusan Maliarik (dusan-maliarik)]

You can disable touchpad while typing, and set timeout. So for example, touchpad is disabled while typing, and it will reenable itself after 3 (you choose) seconds after keyboard inactivity. There is utility called syndaemon for this, unfortunately there's no GUI for this. But it could be part of new mouse configuration dialog, if somebody starts working on this.