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Old 05-30-2021, 06:54 AM   #1
heidenau
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trying to get some settings to be saved


Hello there,

I was just trying to make my mouse settings stick ("xinput --set-prop 9 291 2"). I read that I am supposed to be able to add xinput commands into ~/.xinitrc but this seems to get ignored. Also using .xsession didn't work.

What I also noticed is that the setting of the drop down terminal isn't saved (specifically which screen it's supposed to use, by default it uses my secondary screen...).

And while where's at it, the mousewheel scroll speed I set in the system settings is ignored by Firefox.

Any help?
 
Old 05-30-2021, 09:13 AM   #2
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Welcome to LQ,

Have you tried putting that in your bash profile until you figure out how X settings are saved? (I've never figured out a lot about X either, sorry.)
 
Old 05-30-2021, 09:23 AM   #3
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Try putting it in .Xmodmap. .xinitrc calls that automatically. I use a left-handed mouse and I have
Code:
$ cat ~/.Xmodmap 
pointer  = 3 2 1

Last edited by hazel; 05-30-2021 at 09:26 AM.
 
Old 05-30-2021, 03:00 PM   #4
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What distro do you use? and GNOME?
few weeks ago, I had an issue with setup https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ow-4175694402/
by going into the distro setting GUI I made it.
Your mouse should be seen in the settings tool?
 
Old 06-13-2021, 04:33 PM   #5
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Putting it into ~/.profile worked. Thank you all!

@floppy_stuttgart unfortunately the mouse settings only provide acceleration and that's common problem.
In MXlinux my mouse had this "constant deceleration" (I believe) xinput property which I could use. Funnily enough in Manjaro it didn't have that and I had to go with this matrix property ("1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1" or something). This is bad when you want to up the value because it's just interpolating and leading to lost precision but in my case I just reduced it.
 
  


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