Fixing sensitive mouse on Dell XPS 13 9370 "Developer Edition" (i.e. Ubuntu 18.04 OEM)
I was having trouble with the mouse being too sensitive on my touchpad. After googling around I found this Dell page. I’ve followed the instructions (it was last updated Feb 2019), with the following changes and modifications:
- substituting
18.04for16.04in all kernal and file names (e.g. in Step 3); - substituting
51-for*in Step 5 iii in the file namesudo gedit /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d/*synaptics-quirks.conf(there was nosynaptics-quirks.confon my system, so it was a new file I needed to name explicitly; I used51-because that was the number they had in their screenshot); - Dropping
xorg-input-abi-24from the command in Step 6 (xorg-input-abi-24is a virtual package and you need to explicitly choose a candidate according to the error message I got;xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04(see above, #1) is one of the candidates and it is already installed); - skipping Step 7 (blacklisting the synaptics driver), since there was no
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/*synaptics.confon my system.
Not 100% sure if it is working yet. Mouse seems more draggy; but it did jump once in writing this blog. Time will clearly tell.
Good on Dell to have a page on this, though!
Comment [1]
ernst (Sun Jun 23, 2019 (11:46:29)) [PermLink]: I just went through pretty much the same process, but my trackpad is still way too sensitive. Did you feel like this process actually helped? I haven’t been able to find other solutions for making the trackpad less sensitive. I get a lot of accidental double clicks out of mine.
