{"id":4185,"date":"2021-04-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2021-09-05T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T21:19:26","slug":"microsoft-3600-bt-mouse-latency-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/microsoft-3600-bt-mouse-latency-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 3600 BT mouse latency in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/xps-13-developer-edition-settings\/\">XPS 13 DE Settings<\/a> post, I linked to an <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/528727\/how-do-i-solve-periodic-mouse-lag-on-linux-mint-mate\/929755#929755\">article about mouse lag<\/a> that helped my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/microsoft-mouse-3600-and-ubuntu-16-04-lts\/\">Microsoft 3600 mouse<\/a> behave better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I noticed it started acting up again \ud83d\ude14 so I revisited the problem. My previous settings had apparently been wiped out with my upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. But in my search I found some other settings that might help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m applying both the settings from this post and my previous one, as I feel like the settings in this post additionally help smooth out mouse wheel scrolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux\/+bug\/1824559\/\">this bug report<\/a> you can also change the latency settings for your bluetooth (BT) mouse. I found it easiest to execute these commands as <code>root<\/code> so I could use tab completion to navigate the bluetooth mac addresses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BT device info file is at <code>\/var\/lib\/bluetooth\/&lt;BT adapter MAC&gt;\/&lt;BT device MAC&gt;\/info<\/code>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I type <code>vi \/var\/lib\/bluetooth\/&lt;TAB>EF&lt;TAB>info<\/code> to get to the right file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>vi \/var\/lib\/bluetooth\/90\\:78\\:41\\:CA\\:1E\\:02\/EF\\:E5\\:F1\\:99\\:EA\\:24\/info<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>My file started out with these default ConnectionParameters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;ConnectionParameters]\nMinInterval=6\nMaxInterval=6\nLatency=60\nTimeout=300<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I changed those values to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;ConnectionParameters]\nMinInterval=6\nMaxInterval=7\nLatency=0\nTimeout=216<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I restarted the BT system with <code>systemctl restart bluetooth<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully this quick tip helps you iron out the kinks with your MS 3600 BT Mouse!<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my other XPS 13 DE Settings post, I linked to an article about mouse lag that helped my Microsoft 3600 mouse behave better. Last week I noticed it started acting up again \ud83d\ude14 so I revisited the problem. My previous settings had apparently been wiped out with my upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. But in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/microsoft-3600-bt-mouse-latency-in-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"More settings for the Microsoft 3600 BT mouse to fix latency in Linux \ud83d\uddb1","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[169,166],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ubuntu","tag-bluetooth","tag-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4420,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}