Bug#1068103: Cannot disable touchpad acceleration after upgrading to GNOME 46

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Wed Apr 3 20:07:36 BST 2024


On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 03:24:21PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 2:06 PM Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > After upgrading GNOME to 46, the touchpad seems to have some sort of
> > acceleration enabled: it feels like it has a painfully large amount of
> > inertia.
> >
> > I've tried
> > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad accel-profile flat
> > and that doesn't seem to change anything.
> 
> Please note that 'flat' should be in single quotes.

That doesn't seem to make a difference; libinput still shows the same
thing afterwards.

That said, after upgrading more packages and rebooting, this problem
*seems* to have resolved, insofar as "adaptive" no longer feels like the
cursor is stuck in molasses. So, this can be closed as a transient
issue that an upgrade resolved.

- Josh Triplett



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