how do I run a startup script to set my touchpad scroll speed on startup

Canaan

3/11/24, 4:54 PM

ive tried everything, crontab, setting it from a startup script like xinitrc, using the startup application option and running a script from there. but no matter what i do i always need to manually type sudo xinput set-prop 12 "libinput Scrolling Pixel Distance" 50 in my console on startup to set it to 50 ever new desktop session

please help

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touchpad

startup

scripts

cron

nobody

3/11/24, 8:14 PM

Do you really need to do the command with sudo? It should work in a desktop session as user.

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Ubuntu

Saxtheowl

3/11/24, 6:51 PM

Have you tried creating a systemd service ?

first get the ID of your input device, you can do this by running xinput list

then create a file like /etc/systemd/system/dat_input_scroll_speed.service with your favorite IDE like sudo nano /etc/systemd/dat_input_scroll_speed.service

and put this inside:

[Unit]
Description=Set input configuration on boot

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinput set-prop 14 "libinput Scrolling Pixel Distance" 50

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

then replace 14 by the id of the device you found earlier, then save the file, then enable this new service at startup with sudo systemctl enable dat_input_scroll_speed.service

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Canaan

3/12/24, 7:36 PM

did everything you successfully till sudo systemctl enable input-config.service where then i get this output: Failed to enable unit: Unit file input-config.service does not exist.

Saxtheowl

3/12/24, 7:59 PM

my bad it was sudo systemctl enable dat_input_scroll_speed.service that you had to enter, I edited my answer

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