I have a Microsoft wireless USB mouse whose scroll wheel seems to have absolutely no acceleration whatsoever on Linux. On Windows and OSX, the faster I scroll, the faster the page scrolls, and vice versa.
I managed to use xinput to change the mouse sensitivity settings following this guide, and it worked great. But when I follow the same steps to change the mouse wheel settings, nothing seems to change.
Here is the output of $ xinput --list-props
on my device:
Device 'Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0':
Device Enabled (133): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (135): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (259): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (260): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (261): 1.500000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (262): 0.125000
Device Product ID (250): 1118, 1970
Device Node (251): "/dev/input/event2"
Evdev Axis Inversion (263): 0, 0
Evdev Axes Swap (265): 0
Axis Labels (266): "Rel X" (143), "Rel Y" (144), "Rel Horiz Wheel" (256), "Rel Dial" (257), "Rel Vert Wheel" (258)
Button Labels (267): "Button Left" (136), "Button Middle" (137), "Button Right" (138), "Button Wheel Up" (139), "Button Wheel Down" (140), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (141), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (142), "Button Side" (254), "Button Extra" (255), "Button Unknown" (253), "Button Unknown" (253), "Button Unknown" (253), "Button Unknown" (253)
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (268): 0
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (269): 50
Evdev Third Button Emulation (270): 0
Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (271): 1000
Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (272): 3
Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (273): 20a
Evdev Wheel Emulation (274): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (275): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (276): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (277): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (278): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (279): 0
I've modified properties 274 to 278, but no changes resulted.
My distribution is Debian Linux, desktop environment is Xfce, and computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad X201, though this problem seems to only be specific to this mouse rather than any of those things. Am I missing something via the xinput method, or should I try something else entirely?
edit: I should specify that I am trying to increase the speed of the mouse wheel, preferably via acceleration, as scrolling is painfully slow at the moment.