Hi folks.
I have a friend who recently struggled with his previous desktop environment so I slid Trinity towards him, and he has been using it since.
There is a small problem though, and one I never noticed: There seems to be no way to change the mouse sensitivity under the settings. I thought this was crazy when he told me he couldn't find it, but alas, he wasn't blind. There is no slider anywhere for adjusting the mouse sensitivity.
"Well, perhaps this was an accidental regression at some point", I thought, as I loaded KDE3 on a VM. "There is no way there was no slider in this desktop for something as simple as mouse sensitivity." As wild as I thought that claim would be, there also wasn't a slider in KDE3, only an option to change the polling rate on supported mice, which explained to me the historic reason as to why.
My friend is setting the sensitivity through xinput right now, but perhaps it is time to add a slider to change mouse sensitivity. Those with highly-sensitive mice shall Trinity with no fear! And just to check, I tried turning the Pointer Threshold down and Acceleration up to see if that is a hacky way to change sensitivity. It is not.
Or perhaps we are both blind as bats and the option was already there, right in front of us. Please let us know.
On 3/17/24 8:32 PM, Wirlaburla via tde-users wrote:
There is a small problem though, and one I never noticed: There seems to be no way to change the mouse sensitivity under the settings. I thought this was crazy when he told me he couldn't find it, but alas, he wasn't blind. There is no slider anywhere for adjusting the mouse sensitivity.
I always used Pointer Acceleration for that, but it's been quite a few years since I've had to adjust it.
It's on Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Mouse / Advanced.
On 3/17/24 8:32 PM, Wirlaburla via tde-users wrote:
There is a small problem though, and one I never noticed: There seems to be no way to change the mouse sensitivity under the settings. I thought this was crazy when he told me he couldn't find it, but alas, he wasn't blind. There is no slider anywhere for adjusting the mouse sensitivity.
I always used Pointer Acceleration for that, but it's been quite a few years since I've had to adjust it.
It's on Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Mouse / Advanced.
There is a big difference between speed and acceleration. Acceleration doesn't work for adjusting a mouse speed to a constant factor. It only begins accelerating after the mouse already begins moving. It is not sensitivity.
I also mentioned this already in the OM.
I tried turning the Pointer Threshold down and Acceleration up to see if that is a hacky way to change sensitivity. It is not.
Anno domini 2024 Tue, 19 Mar 17:17:38 -0500 Wirlaburla via tde-users scripsit:
On 3/17/24 8:32 PM, Wirlaburla via tde-users wrote:
There is a small problem though, and one I never noticed: There seems to be no way to change the mouse sensitivity under the settings. I thought this was crazy when he told me he couldn't find it, but alas, he wasn't blind. There is no slider anywhere for adjusting the mouse sensitivity.
IMO there is no way but to use xinput, e.g.
xinput --set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix' 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.1
... but you found that already.
I always used Pointer Acceleration for that, but it's been quite a few years since I've had to adjust it.
It's on Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Mouse / Advanced.
There is a big difference between speed and acceleration. Acceleration doesn't work for adjusting a mouse speed to a constant factor. It only begins accelerating after the mouse already begins moving. It is not sensitivity.
I also mentioned this already in the OM.
I tried turning the Pointer Threshold down and Acceleration up to see if that is a hacky way to change sensitivity. It is not.
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