my cursor moves too fast

[charroo]

hi
i bought a new wireless mouse for my laptop

cold not find a way to adjust the cursor so that it moves slower than it is.

the mouse settings didn't really solve it for me...

what is next?

thanks

[rene]

Create a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse-deceleration.conf (you will on vanilla install have to create the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ first) with:

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Section "InputClass"
    Identifier      "Logitech M705 evdev"
    MatchDriver     "evdev"
    MatchProduct    "Logitech M705"
    Option          "ConstantDeceleration" "2"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier      "Logitech M705 libinput"
    MatchDriver     "libinput"
    MatchProduct    "Logitech M705"
    Option          "AccelProfile" "flat"
    Option          "AccelSpeed" "-0.75"   
EndSection

in which you need to replace the MatchProduct value with the (complete) string you see in the output of xinput list (and should of course change the identifier accordingly). The "evdev" stanza is not normally needed anymore; it's an older driver. It doesn't hurt to leave it in either. Of course, change the "AccelSpeed" value to taste; range -1 to 1, with negative meaning deceleration, positive acceleration. I advise to pick a value such that the desktop configuration also still makes sense, with its fastest setting too fast and its slowest too slow.

[charroo]

thank you
i didn't knew it is complicated

[rene]

What is complicated?