At work, my company issued me a Dell D620L laptop. For whatever reason, the touchpad moves the cursor painfully slow in Ubuntu (but not Windows). As a quick stop-gap measure, I just stick in a USB mice and use that. Today, I forgot my mouse so I decided that I’d look to see how I could fix it.
After some digging online for documentation, this is what worked for me:
- Open xorg.conf for edit (I found mine in /etc/X11/)
- Look under “synaptics” and add the following options
Option "MinSpeed" "1.5" Option "MaxSpeed" "1.7" Option "AccelFactor" "1.8"
- Tweak these three numbers as necessary to suit your taste
Here’s a screenshot (click for larger):
I hope this helps anyone facing the same annoying problem I did.
On shameless-promo note, check out my cool wallpaper :p The scenery is a picture I took when I was in Grindelwald, Switzerland.