I suspect this behaviour is caused by the interaction of a couple of factors:
* the touchpad is anisotropic, about 2500DPI vertically but only 1500DPI horizontally * both the synaptics driver and X are making making pointer acceleration calculations These can be mostly fixed by tweaking the config; I'm currently using (add this as "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-touchpad.conf" and restart your Xserver): Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad" MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Driver "synaptics" # fix touchpad resolution Option "VertResolution" "100" Option "HorizResolution" "65" # disable synaptics driver pointer acceleration Option "MinSpeed" "1" Option "MaxSpeed" "1" # tweak the X-server pointer acceleration Option "AccelerationProfile" "2" Option "AdaptiveDeceleration" "16" Option "ConstantDeceleration" "16" Option "VelocityScale" "32" EndSection See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/621432 ** Attachment added: "50-touchpad.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1042069/+attachment/3402410/+files/50-touchpad.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042069 Title: Jumpy Mouse Cursor using Thinkpad X230 Touchpad To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1042069/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp