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I checked through the answers currently available, but none of them seems to disable mouse acceleration permanently.
xset m 0 0 seems to disable it for a brief moment, but it comes back within minutes.
How do I permanently disable mouse acceleration?
You can modify certain parameters of the mouse driver permanently, i.e. accross reboots.
First list Xorg input devices.
Results are for my present machine and will be different in yr case.
List Xorg session input devices in terminal (CRTL-ALT+T):
$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
So my mouse is identified by: "PS/2 Generic Mouse" and has identifier 11. For you it might be different.
Next, to list the mouse properties, do in terminal:
$ xset q | grep -A 1 Pointer
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
To experiment with zero mouse acceleration parameters,use:
$ xset m 0/1 4
Your device may have other parameters values. You can experiment with them until you are satisfied with the result. Doing so with the cli utility xset allows you to tweak the device parameters on the fly, i.e. without restarting the Xorg session. However those settings will not be preserved across reboots.
You need to make them persistent (until the next driver or system upgrade), by creating a new file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. For instance:
$ cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
$ sudo vim 80-mouse-accel-disable.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Set mouse acceleration to zero"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
# Default value of mouse acceleration: 2/1 4
# Set AccelerationNumerator to zero to disable
Option "AccelerationNumerator" "0"
Option "AccelerationDenominator" "1"
Option "AccelerationThreshold" "4"
EndSection
$ sudo chmod 644 80-mouse-accel-disable.conf
That's it. You can logout and back in or reboot. In principle yr mouse acceleration should be persistently set to 0.
EDIT: As suggested in one of the comments below, the above may only apply to Ubuntu 14.04 and derived flavors. In later versions the config file syntax and keywords may change slightly, although the general principle of the solution remains valid. See this tip for version 16.04 and (perhaps) later (not tested by me).
sudo chmod... cmd to make absolutely sure that no access permission issue may further muddle things up.
Simplest way to simple disable the whole mouse acceleration and not modifying it:
Create the following file with your editor of choice:
$ sudo vim /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mouse-accel-disable.conf
Add the follow content do remove the acceleration profile:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "mouse"
MatchIsPointer "on"
Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
EndSection
This worked for me on ubuntu 18.04 and it should also work on ubuntu 16.04.
Since ubuntu uses gnome, that means gnome will sometimes overwrite xorg.conf.d settings.
Gnome uses dconf, which is a "database" full of settings that get applied when gnome starts, user logs-in, etc.
These settings are here so we(users) don't have to create such settings like 90-mouse.conf,
and then debug why settings don't work, search for log files. etc.
Plus the settings will stay the same once gnome will replace xorg with wayland.
How to:
sudo apt install dconf-editororg -> gnome -> desktop -> peripherals -> mouseHere is the setting for accel-profile which tells the computer what kind of mouse acceleration you want.
You have these options:
To change the accel-profle setting:
accel-profleUse default value is set to on turn it offCustom value to flat if you want no mouse accelerationThe settings will be saved automatically.
My mouse is still to fast! HELP!
You can lower the mouse speed at org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/mouse/speed
The value can be between -1 and 1.
org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/mouse: left-handed, nature-scroll and speed. No accel-profile setting.
I'm going to post the solution that worked for me : (Create a configuration file)
Firstly, you need to create an empty file named 50-mouse-acceleration.conf under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ This can be done by the command :
sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mouse-acceleration.conf
Then, inside this file you copy the code below :
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "My Mouse"
MatchIsPointer "yes"
Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
Option "AccelSpeed" "-1"
EndSection
Last thing you need to do, is to replace the the Identifier "My Mouse" with the id of your mouse (in quotes). Type
xinput list
and from the list shown copy the id of the mouse device. You don't have to replace any other line beyond this. E.g if your mouse id is 12, the complete code should be like this :
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "12"
MatchIsPointer "yes"
Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
Option "AccelSpeed" "-1"
EndSection
I hope this helps :)
GNOME manages mouse acceleration by itself. So not only the xorg settings should be adjusted, but also the gnome ones.
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse accel-profile flat
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse speed 0
And you can enjoy CS:GO now :-)
The xset command with the given parameters are an unknown option in my 16.04 In the Ubuntu software shop there is an installer for Keyboard and mouse. This made an easy acceleration change possible.
