{"id":49280,"date":"2025-07-17T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49280"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:28:13","slug":"adjust-touchpad-sensitivity-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/adjust-touchpad-sensitivity-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity in Ubuntu 24.04 | 25.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Touchpad is too sensitive? Here’s a step by step guide shows how to detect the touchpad pressure values and change the sensitivity accordingly in recent Ubuntu with default libinput driver.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about how to adjust touchpad scrolling speed<\/a> in Ubuntu with Wayland and libinput. And, this one is for the touchpad mouse movement, tap down and up sensitivity.<\/p>\n

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Step 1: Install libinput-tools<\/h3>\n

Libinput has some command line tools for debugging, measuring, analyzing input devices in Linux.<\/p>\n

To install the tool, press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> on keyboard to open terminal, and run command:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install libinput-tools<\/pre>\n
Run sudo apt update<\/code> first to refresh package cache if package not found. And for Fedora, the package name is “libinput-utils”<\/i><\/p>\n
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Step 2: Measure Touchpad Pressure<\/h3>\n
1. After installed the tools, run the command below to start measuring the touchpad pressure values when you tapping on it.<\/p>\n
sudo libinput measure touchpad-pressure<\/pre>\n
As you see in the screenshot below, the default values are 10, 8, 130, 255 in my case. And, they mean:<\/p>\n