![]() That's why it's recommended disabling mouse acceleration when playing first-person shooters. That's because your mouse moves not only based on your hand movement, but on speed as well, making it impossible to achieve any consistent behavior and thus, lowering your precision. While mouse acceleration may be beneficial in some situations, it can hurt your aim in FPS games. So these were the mouse configurations you could do using the Settings UI and the Gnome Tweaks Tool.Mouse acceleration dynamically adjusts the mouse cursor sensitivity based on how fast you're moving the mouse across the mouse pad. You can turn this feature on or off using the slider button adjacent to Middle Click Paste in the Keyboard & Mouse view. If your mouse has a wheel scroller between the left or right button, or a third button between the two, you can use it for pasting copied content(text, images etc.). ![]() When this feature is turned on, you can highlight the location where your pointer is currently located simply by hitting the Ctrl key. The pointer location feature can be turned on by using the slider button. Highlight pointer location when Ctrl key is pressed The Acceleration Profile drop-down on the KeyBoard & Mouse view lets you choose among three profiles:ĭefault: This profile ensures that the mouth pointer moves very smoothly and accurately when moving short distances.Īdaptive: This profile takes the current speed of the device into account when deciding on acceleration.įlat: This profile adds a constant factor to all device deltas, regardless of the speed of motion. You can make the following settings through this view: Configure Acceleration Profile Now open the Tweaks tool from the system Dash and open the Keyboards & Mouse tab: In order to install this utility, open the Ubuntu Software Manager and look up for Gnome Tweaks:Ĭlick on the similar search result that you see above and install it on your system. The Gnome Tweaks Tool also lets you make some configurations to your USB Mouse. Using Gnome Tweaks Tool to make Mouse configurations Turn the Natural scrolling slider button, in the Mouse panel of the Mouse & Touchpad tab, On or OFF in order to enable/disable natural scrolling. Enable/disable Natural Scrolling (through Ubuntu Settings)īy enabling/disabling natural scrolling, you can configure whether scrolling moves the content or the view you are on. You can adjust how fast or slow the mouse pointer moves by sliding the Mouse Speed slider left or right, on the Mouse panel of the Mouse & Touchpad view. Not all mice(hardware) move the pointer perfectly at the default mouse speed set on your Ubuntu. Advertisement Configure Mouse Speed (through Ubuntu Settings) In the General panel of the Mouse & Touchpad view, click on the button you want to use as a primary button. To make the mouse use more comfortable for a left-handed user, you can swap the order of physical buttons both on mice and touchpads. You can make the following settings through this view: Set either left/right button as the primary button (through Ubuntu Settings) This is how the Mouse & Touchpad view looks like: You need to click on the Devices tab, and then the Mouse & Touchpad in order to make the required configurations.Īlternatively, you can directly launch this view by entering relevant mouse and touchpad keywords in the Ubuntu Dash search, as follows: The Settings utility opens in the Wi-Fi tab by default. You can access the Settings either through the system Dash or by accessing it as follows:Ĭlick on the downward arrow located at the top-right corner of your Ubuntu desktop and then click the settings icon from the following view: If you prefer using the GUI for performing simple administrative tasks, you can make use of the graphical Settings utility. Using Ubuntu Settings Utility to make Mouse configurations We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS System. Middle Click Paste (through Gnome Tweaks).Highlight pointer location when Ctrl key is pressed (through Gnome Tweaks).Configure Acceleration Profile (through Gnome Tweaks).Enable/disable Natural Scrolling (through Ubuntu Settings).Configure Mouse Speed (through Ubuntu Settings).Set either left/right button as the primary button (through Ubuntu Settings).In this article, we will describe how to make the following changes to your mouse settings: ![]() Among these things, is the way you want to use your external USB mouse. ![]() Ubuntu, being an open-source operating system, lets you make a lot of configurations to even the smallest of the system modules.
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