Lowering the pointer speed and turning up the acceleration might help. If you don't have a gui, you can use synclient to adjust these settings. I've never used it, but there is a nice GUI based utility called gsynaptics that can allow you to edit configuration. Type synclient to show all of your parameter settings. Look
here for help. To change a setting, type synclient
parameter=
value , so if I wanted to lower the minimum pointer speed (which currently equals 1, I'd type:
Code:
synclient MinSpeed=0.5
After you've changed synclient parameters to suit your needs, open up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add the options you changed in order to make them "stick" between reboots. Go to the section entitled Input Device and add a line with the settings like this:
Code:
Option "Parameter" "Value"
So, for example, if we wanted to make that speed change permanent, the config file should look like this:
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "MinSpeed" "O.5"
EndSection
There will probably be other options in here, but do not change them.