how to increase mouse movement speed in ubuntu 16.04 (2025)

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1. Run in terminal xinput --list --short and find your mouse id (for me id=12)

2. Run in terminal xinput --list-props 12 (change 12 for the right id)

3. Find the id for the property Device Accel Constant Deceleration (for me 262)
4. Run in terminal xinput --set-prop 12 262 0.1 (change 12 and 262 for the correct id)

The last number (0.1) is the important value. The smaller the number the faster your cursor moves (default value is 1.0). Play around with the values till you find one that works for you and then add the command to the startup applications GUI.

Good luck

• i get a weird message when i type in the last command. btw i entered th id of the touchpad since i am using touchpad. it's too long to paste the response here

  –Karthikeyan Saravanabavan

  Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 16:52

• @KarthikeyanSaravanabavan what is the essence of the message. Can you give me a link to the message (ex. Pastebin, Dropbox, Github)

  –staad

  Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 21:17

• drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0H8TnBYDUhRThvU2dfcFhoX0U/… this link will help i guess

  –Karthikeyan Saravanabavan

  Commented Jan 27, 2017 at 13:11

• drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0H8TnBYDUhRThvU2dfcFhoX0U/…

  –Karthikeyan Saravanabavan

  Commented Jan 27, 2017 at 13:12

• @KarthikeyanSaravanabava Sorry, my mistake. You have a syntax error, it should be xinput --set-prop not xinput --set-props. I have edited my answer

  –staad

  Commented Jan 27, 2017 at 17:11

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The first place to speed up your mouse is in Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad -> Pointer Speed.

If that maximum is not enough try this answer : How can I increase the mouse pointer speed beyond the limits set by the Mouse preferences dialog?

Basically, add the following command to Startup Application and change the second number (2 in this case) to the desired mouse speed (2X faster, 3X faster...).

xset m 2 1

Good luck

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  I tried doing this.. i even tried the xset m 5000 1.. it doesn't make any difference in my mouse speed

  –Karthikeyan Saravanabavan

  Commented Jan 25, 2017 at 15:49

• @KarthikeyanSaravanabavan please see second answer

  –staad

  Commented Jan 25, 2017 at 23:28

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You can try using piper. It is available trough the Ubuntu repositories, so just install it via

sudo apt install piper

It has a GUI and it worked very well for my Logitech G402 on Ubuntu 20.04 to increase the mouse speed pretty much. You can change some settings for the buttons and even the LED are controllable.

• Upvoting this as every other answer wasn't able to increase my mouse speed, but changing the DPI with piper instantly worked (plus the other features are neat).

  –user2979044

  Commented Jan 24, 2022 at 21:28

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I found a way to fix it after an update from 16.04 to 18.04 (mouse became too slow after the update).

Like in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/876273/391744

but change instead just the acceleration profile from 0 to 2:

1. Run in terminal xinput --list --short and find your mouse id (for me id=12)

2. Run in terminal xinput --list-props 12 (change 12 for the right id)

3. Find the id for the property Device Accel Profile (for me 267)

4. Run in terminal xinput --set-prop 12 267 2 (change 12 and 267 for the correct id)

• The acceleration doesn't go above 1.0 on my system. To speed up my high dpi mouse I had to alter the transformation matrix as described here: unix.stackexchange.com/a/177640

  –joe

  Commented Oct 1, 2019 at 9:22

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For a GUI tool try typing this into your Terminal:

dconf-editor

For (Ubuntu-Mate-18.04.02) I use the Default of (-1) for both. My settings are here:-

/org/mate/desktop/peripherals/mouse/motion-acceleration/org/mate/desktop/peripherals/mouse/motion-threshold

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None of the above worked for me. I found a solution here:

1. Find your device id using xinput --list --short
2. Find Coordinate Transformation Matrix property id using xinput --list-props {device-id}
3. Increase the speed (2x in this case) using: xinput --set-prop {device-id} {property-id} 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 (replace 2 with 1.5 if it's too fast).

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