XFCE Mouse Acceleration

applecheeks37

Hello everyone!

I've been using the XFCE beta build of Solus since it was available on the site, and I'm really liking it. However, I can't seem to get the mouse acceleration through the GUI to take. I was wondering if anyone would know a solution to the issue? Its been a while since I've had to deal with my mouse acceleration not working.

Also, it will work in other XFCE environments, even every other environment I've tried so far (sometimes through manual file configurations or the like), it just doesn't seem to want to work here.

Thanks in advance,
Apple

WetGeek

applecheeks37 However, I can't seem to get the mouse acceleration through the GUI to take.

This is the sort of issue that's often exposed during a beta test. It may just be waiting until it comes up a little farther on the things-to-do-next priority list, or it's possible you're just the first to notice it. If the latter, it would be a really good idea to create a bug report on the Dev Tracker (at the top of this page). That would ensure that it doesn't get overlooked.

applecheeks37

WetGeek
I've gone ahead and made a bug report. Yeah it's very possible someone hasn't notice this yet, I looked for open bugs and it doesn't seem like anyone else has noticed it.

It's not the end of the world for desktop use. It seems to be a very minor amount of acceleration (I think it sets it to 2.0 by default? or maybe it was 4.0) but during games it gets quite frustrating.

Hopefully they can take a look into it and see if it's something simple. Seeing as every other OS using XFCE hasn't seemed to have this issue (for me), I'm expecting maybe they're just missing a config file somewhere.

Thanks for responding though! 🙂

WetGeek

applecheeks37 it doesn't seem like anyone else has noticed it.

That's quite likely. I hadn't noticed it, even on my Xfce laptop, but then, I'm not a gamer, nor do I have any other reason to change my mouse characteristics. I'm quite accustomed to the defaults. Your bug report will make sure that this is eventually resolved, even if more important issues need to be addressed first.

brent

applecheeks37 I saw this post and I saw your devtracker bug and I don't believe this is a longshot reply at all.
I had some plank funkeness regarding exposed lines. the remedy was to tweak a setting in this XFCE program that did not in a million years say 'get rid of artifact lines.'

what I'm saying is my problem was not solved in the obvious (system display settings like you went to system mouse settings) but in the lesser-known app. In each of these 6 tabs there is a mouse tweak. throwing it out there.
edit: formatting

applecheeks37

brent So i've gone through those settings to check for anything that would assist in my issue and it doesn't seem like anything there has helped? I've tried a couple here and there but just re-disabled them after the fact since it didn't seem like it was helping in this scenario.

I do find it a little weird how there's some mouse settings in there and not the mouse settings window itself, but I suppose someone somewhere has the logic and reasoning as to why that is.

Thanks for trying though! 🙂

brent

applecheeks37 I do find it a little weird how there's some mouse settings in there and not the mouse settings window itself, but I suppose someone somewhere has the logic and reasoning as to why that is.

xfce settings, historically in my observation, are always annoyingly scattered in every unusual place and never centralized and impossible to find all of them and maddening sometimes but an xfce quirk for sure🙂.

I've been in the Beta the last few days. I like discovering. thanks for giving the idea a whirl. good luck on the bug. unless we got a repo package that governs acceleration?

laurker

Haven't tried Solus XFCE yet. In Xubuntu I always have the problem after install that the 'natural (reverse) scrolling' setting doesn't take effect in all apps. This turns out to be because Xubuntu or XFCE (not sure which) bundles the Synaptics touchpad driver, which only works in XFWM not GTK apps, or something like that. The solution was to remove the Synaptics driver, so the system falls back to libinput, which works more consistently. I followed the instructions here.

I don't know which driver is packaged with Solus XFCE, or if the problem is related, but you could give it a try and see if it helps.

applecheeks37

laurker I decided to take a shot just to see. So yes the synaptics driver is installed, I uninstalled and rebooted, still nothing. It was worth a shot though. I think it's just something they need to look into at this point.