I've had this problem since using a USB mouse with my touchpad. The mouse, it seems, is irrelevant (mine is an ageing Dell with no features other than 2 buttons & a click-able scroll wheel). The computer in use for this is a Samsung NC10, latest stable Ubuntu 10.10 - kernel updates were only downloaded yesterday.
$ uname -a Linux NC10 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:18:49 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Given Pelládi Gábor's detail above, I had a play with the sliders in Preferences > Mouse... The USB mouse does indeed seem to be inverted in the application of the sliders. Setting acceleration high and sensitivity low sets the mouse as I want - ie, it's responsive yet accurate - scrolling across 1200 pixels on screen takes about 2 inches of mouse movement. Perfect for me. The touchpad also responds sensibly (it's a small touchpad, moving the mouse around screen quickly & accurately is fairly tricky). Personally, I blame the MS implementation of mouse sensitivity settings being wrong. Again, given Pelládi Gábor's explanation of how the settings SHOULD be applied, that makes sense (from a developer viewpoint). To me, and in my very limited use, the implementation within Linux has no bugs (I also use Windows as an OS daily, but I'm content just knowing the different implementations). However, others may not be so forgiving. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357204 Title: label of the mouse motion preferences is misleading -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
