Ubuntu – Separate touchpad sensitivity

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For gaming precision on PC, I have disabled mouse acceleration. The mouse speed works as I wanted to, however the touchpad is just too slow.

Is there a way to have separate cursor speed for mouse and trackpad? I prefer no acceleration at all

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Nope, not possible in the current version of Ubuntu. You might, however, want to take a look at / contribute to this thread on Ubuntu Brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6030

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Download psmouse-alps-1.3: http://www.dahetral.com/public-download/alps-psmouse-dlkm-for-3-2-and-3-5/view Then (using sudo / root):

Extract the folder psmouse-alps-1.3 to /usr/source
cd to /usr/source
dkms add psmouse-alps-1.3
dkms autoinstall
rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse

Bam! Working multitouch! :-)

(See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238/) - Tested on Dell M4700, Xubuntu 12.04

Fix Touchpad Disabled and Invisible Cursor on Touchscreen Laptop with Ubuntu 13.10

obviously, your touchpad is not enabled. see > man synaptics :

Option "TouchpadOff"
0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off

in your case TouchpadOff=2, so tapping and scrolling is switched off.

go to system settings->mouse&touchpad and enable touchpad.

NOTE: synclient is is always your friend when debugging touchpad. all its options are documented by 'man synaptics'. you can change touchpad options directly by synclient, but the settings can not persist after the user session. this is when gnome-settings-daemon comes into play. gnome-settings-daemon re-applies the system settings every time a new user session starts.

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