Add a way to disable mouse acceleration
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Switchboard Mouse & Touchpad Plug |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Please add a way to disable mouse acceleration (having the mouse cursor move farther based on how fast or slow you are moving it).
For many people, this is a useful feature, but many others do not desire this behaviour. Gamers or designers, for example, generally want the maximum amount of control over their mouse. Moving the mouse 10 cm really slowly should move the mouse the same amount onscreen as moving the same mouse 10 cm really quickly. Mouse acceleration allows you to quickly move the mouse around the screen, but lacks precision.
Most desktops do not have an option for disabling this behaviour and it must be done with config files or autostart programs. Windows, of all things, lets you disable it, albeit in non-obvious way (disable "enhance pointer precision" and set sensitivity to 6/11 on the slider). GNOME, on the other hand, does not have an option, and I do not recall, in fact, seeing a simple option in any other Linux environment either.
TL;DR
Add a switch to disable/enable mouse acceleration please :D
Possibly with separate options for mouse and touchpad.
Thanks for the report! We'll have to investigate if this is even easily possible for us to configure without resorting to hacky workarounds. But good to get it on the radar. :)