Bug 382938

Summary: Add a mouse speed setting
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: dalz59q+gk5jns
Component: kcm_mouseAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bluedzins, nolden, nucrap, null, toddrpartridge, unassigned-bugs-null, Viktor.Engelmann
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description dalz59q+gk5jns 2017-07-30 22:34:23 UTC 
This problem is decades old (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235630). Mouse speed is system wide and not managed by KDE, but it needs to be. A high DPI mouse simply leads to a terrible user experience.

Using the xinput tool is a decent workaround, which could be built into system settings and set at login.
https://askubuntu.com/a/569345/196639

For example:
[X] Enable X mouse speed multiplyer (set at login)
Pointer speed: [ 0.01 x ] <greyed out unless above is checked>
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-07-31 10:38:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 311665 ***