How to adjust mouse sensitivity properly in Gnome?

sablabra · 19 Jul 2008 at 16:20

I've tried several distroes, including making my own desktop environment with Arch Linux. However, every time I use Gnome I can't seem to adjust mouse sensitivity properly. I'm using a Logitech G5. I've tried adjusting it in Preferences>Mouse, but no matter how I adjust Acceleration and Sensitivity my mouse pointer is still overly sensitive. How can I adjust it properly? :confused:

Whenever I use KDE it has never been a problem, I can adjust it correctly in KDE...

allllec · 22 Jul 2008 at 10:26

Im in the same boat! Got used to it now but would still like to turn my sensitivity down a tad.

Running ubunutu myself, if you don't know about it there is a great little program called btnx. Lets to map all the buttons on the mouse to what you like

sablabra · 22 Jul 2008 at 11:06

I'm starting to get used to the sensitivity myself, but I get reminded about how it should be every time I boot up Vista

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Thanks for the tip, but I'm pretty sure modifying xorg.conf would give me the same result as btnx, although I've only mapped the backward button on the side of the mouse.

allllec · 22 Jul 2008 at 18:16

It would yeah. btnx is only really good if you ever used the windows drivers to map keyboard/other functions really.

However mapping things like the side button to middle mouse button etc is easy enough in xorg.