Bug 1017706 - Pointer speed slider missing from Mouse & Touchpad settings for some mice
Summary: Pointer speed slider missing from Mouse & Touchpad settings for some mice
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-10 11:18 UTC by Anthony Horton
Modified: 2015-02-17 17:36 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 17:36:33 UTC
Type: Bug


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Screenshot showing Mouse & Touchpad settings with pointer speed missing (17.83 KB, image/png)
2013-10-10 11:18 UTC, Anthony Horton
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Description Anthony Horton 2013-10-10 11:18:04 UTC
Created attachment 810461 [details]
Screenshot showing Mouse & Touchpad settings with pointer speed missing

Description of problem:

After upgrading from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19 (via fedup) I discovered that I was no longer able to adjust the pointer speed for my mouse.  When I opened Settings > Mouse & Touchpad I discovered that where there should be a pointer speed slider there was none (see attached screenshot) and, worse, the act of merely opening the Mouse & Touchpad settings caused my pointer speed to change from the previous sensible value to an extremely high value that was almost completely unusable.

Using dconf-editor I found under org > gnome > settings-daemon > mouse that the motion-acceleration and motion-threshold parameters had become 10.0 and 1 respectively.  Because of the missing slider in Settings > Mouse & Touchpad using dconf-editor was the only way I could return the pointer speed to a sensible value (a motion-acceleration of around 5.0 in my case).

My mouse is part of a Logitech MK320 Wireless Desktop (keyboard + mouse) and I did not have the problem before the upgrade from F18 to F19 so this seems to be a regression between GNOME 3.6 and 3.8.  Web searching for reports of similar problems resulted in the discovery of a Logitech EX110 Wireless Desktop user reporting the same missing slider so this bug may effect a range of Logitech products, and possible others.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.8.5


How reproducible: Always for Logitech MK320 or EX110 Wireless Desktops, possibly others.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Connect a Logitech wireless mouse
2. Open Settings > Mouse & Touchpad
3. Try to adjust the pointer speed for the attached mouse


Actual results:

There is no pointer speed slider.


Expected results:

There is a pointer speed slider and adjusting it will correctly adjust the sensitivity of the attached mouse.


Additional info:

Report of the same problem occurring with a Logitech EX110 Wireless Desktop: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=165779

Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2013-11-15 14:30:50 UTC
There is related upstream bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701363

Please attach there output of:
xinput list
evemu-describe (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Evemu/)

Comment 2 Anthony Horton 2013-11-23 12:08:22 UTC
Reported upstream along with output of xinput list and evemu-describe, as requested.

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