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 +Select your preferred mouse theme. It is wise to log out and log in after a mouse theme change, so all applications pick up the new cursors.
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 +You can install new cursor themes by butting them in the ''~/.icons'' directory. Make sure the directory layout looks like ''~/.icons/<theme_name>/cursors''.
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 +===== Device Properties =====
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 +The Synaptics and Wacom interface in the dialogs shows only the most important settings, but there are a lot more settings for input devices you can control. Xfsettingsd is capable of setting all sorts of device properties; however, you have to manually set them in the pointers xfconf channel which is not always easy.
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 +First you need to find the correct device using the ''xinput'' utility. When you run this command it will list the devices on your system.
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 +  $ xinput list
 +  Virtual core pointer              id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
 +    Virtual core XTEST pointer      id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
 +    SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad      id=8    [slave  pointer  (2)]
 +  Virtual core keyboard             id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
 +    Virtual core XTEST keyboard     id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
 +    Power Button                    id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
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 +Now let's assume you want to modify a special property of the touchpad, lets say the coasting speed. If you run the command below it will show a long list with all the different properties.
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 +  $ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
 +  Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
 +  [...]
 +  Synaptics Coasting Speed (274): 45.000000
 +  Synaptics Scrolling Distance (252): 100, 100 
 +  [...]
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 +Next it to translate the names into valid Xfconf property name. The following characters are allowed: ''A-Z a-z 0-9 - _'' and spaces are replaced with an underscore. So this means ''SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'' will become ''SynPS2_Synaptics_TouchPad''. Same goes for the property name and devices properties are stored under ''/<device-name>/Properties/<prop-name>''.
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 +As you can see the value above is stored as a double (45.000), so to disable coasting you have to run the following xfconf-query command:
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 +  xfconf-query -c pointers -p /SynPS2_Synaptics_TouchPad/Properties/Synaptics_Coasting_Speed -n -t double -s 0
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 +Use ''xinput list-props'' to check if the property is applied.
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 +In case the device property is an array, it will be show like ''Synaptics Scrolling Distance''; a comma separated list. This value is an integer because the 100 has no precision.
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 +  xfconf-query -c pointers -p /SynPS2_Synaptics_TouchPad/Properties/Synaptics_Scrolling_Distance -n -t int -t int -s 50 -s 80
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