I have a touchpad on my laptop. I tried to set the motion sensitivity to maximum so I could get across my screen in one pass, but even at maximum sensitivity it's far too slow. I found out that the "maximum" setting sets something in xorg.conf to about 0.35 and 0.70 (my laptop's battery is flat, will confirm later). If I manually change them to 1.0 and 1.0, it is much better. It should be possible to do this using the mouse configuration applet.
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "LeftEdge" "120" Option "RightEdge" "830" Option "TopEdge" "120" Option "BottomEdge" "650" Option "FingerLow" "14" Option "FingerHigh" "15" Option "MaxTapMove" "110" Option "VertScrollDelta" "20" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20" Option "MinSpeed" "0.3" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75" EndSection MinSpeed and MaxSpeed set to 1.0 gives much better results. I installed gsynaptics to try to configure this, but it's not currently enabled, and doesn't seem to influence the sensitivity anyhow. (It controls things like the touch sensitivity and scrolling settings, but not the motion speed.)
Any thoughts on this? Should I file it upstream?
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