Thinkpad 13 Trackpoint slowdown in i3 window manager

As has been mentioned on Reddit , the Thinkpad 13 trackpoint settings aren’t in the same place as those of older thinkpads. Despite some troubleshooting, I haven’t yet found what files to edit to adjust the trackpoint’s speed and sensitivity in Ubuntu 16.04.

The trackpoint has been slightly sluggish/unresponsive when I use the i3 window manager, and has additional intermittent slowdowns when using Chromium and Firefox in i3.

Although I don’t yet know the right way to fix trackpoint sensitivity on this machine, I accidentally discovered a highly effective workaround today:

Log into Unity (the default desktop that Ubuntu ships with) and configure the mouse and input settings as desired Log out, and get back into i3wm Launch unity-settings-daemon And suddenly, the mouse works correctly the way it did in Unity!

I fully realize that this is a nasty hack around identifying and solving the actual problem, but it succeeds at making the mouse responsive while minimizing time spent troubleshooting.