Mouse acceleration not configurable in Xubuntu 18.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xfce4-settings (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch), Release: 18.04
Fresh installation from Xubuntu 18.04 beta1 ISO, and "apt updated" daily.
2) package: xfce4-settings 4.12.3-0ubuntu1
3) What to expected to happen?
Running the application "xfce4-
4) What happened instead?
The sliders have no effect, i.e. you change the mouse acceleration and sensitivity sliders but both don't haven't any effect on the mouse.
Tested on several different machines with different mice. With Xubuntu 16.04 the xfce4-mouse-
While "xfce4-
Maybe the bug is related to the new libinput system introduced in Ubuntu 18.04?
The terminal command:
mouse [accel] [threshold] [mouse default]
doesn't change the mouse speed in Xubuntu 18.04.
However the terminal command:;
xinput
does work in Xubuntu 18.04, but it only knows one parameter instead of the two used by "xfce4-
For example the following works for me:
xinput set-prop "PixArt USB Optical Mouse" "libinput Accel Speed" -0.6
tags: | added: bionic |
Maybe related to the following bug report for Xubuntu 17.10 from November 2017 ?
"Mouse acceleration/ sensitivity adjustment has no effect" /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ xfce4-settings/ +bug/1729762
https:/
Since I don't use Xubuntu 17.10 however, I can't tell.