How can I Change Scroll sensitivity of MX Master 2s's scroll wheel?

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Solution 1

first uninstall your current solaar version, then try this:

git clone https://github.com/pwr/Solaar.git
cd Solaar

Update: The following is unnecessary now, as the pull request has been merged:

unfortunately the support for the MX Master 2s seems not to be in there yet, but there's a pull request with the support, so you could do: git pull origin pull/399/head

to download it into your local repository. If it opens an editor just hit save and exit it.

Continue here

Then you can run

sudo python setup.py install
/usr/local/bin/solaar

Solution 2

For those who want to config the smart-shift for MX MASTER 2S (which can't be configured via the UI), Follow Catscrash's solution, then go to Solaar's CLI instead of the GUI, and run the following command:

/usr/local/bin/sudo solaar config 1 smart-shift 30

1 is your device number (run solaar show to see a device list.)
30 is a number between 0-50 (0 is total free scroll).

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Sumeet Deshmukh

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Sumeet Deshmukh over 1 year

I've been using Logitech MX master 2s with Ubuntu 18.04 for like a week now and this mouse comes with 2 settings for scrolling one is a click to click scroll like a normal mouse and other is a hyperfast free scroll. if you scroll fast enough the click to click scroll turns to hyper-fast scrolling, which is a really good feature on Windows or Mac you can control the sensitivity of when Click to Click scrolling gets converted to hyperfast free scrolling. I think this is also possible in Ubuntu (or lets say Linux) because it's been demoed on Arch Wiki.

on Arch Wiki it's written and I quote:

But Solaar on Ubuntu doesn't have that slider

also, note that Solaar hasn't been updated since 2014-04-20. do you have any other way to solve this issue?
- Leo almost 6 years
  
  How did you install Solaar in Ubuntu?
- v.tralala almost 4 years
  
  You could try out the unofficial driver for logitech mice and keyboard and change the setting for the smartshift threshold in config. The installation and a sample config is here:askubuntu.com/a/1246278/678626
pim over 5 years

The pull request has been merged, there is no more need to pull it.
Lukas Kalbertodt almost 5 years

The version from the official Ubuntu 18.04 packet repositories does not yet contain the patch. Installing it from the Git repository is necessary but works without a problem.
Alonzzo2 almost 5 years

I have the MX Master 2S and after I followed the above instructions, I don't get the other options/info at Solarr except for: Battery, Wireless Link...
Cesar Moore almost 4 years

I made a mess out of my Ubuntu 20.04. Firstly, I installed python (apt install python) and got Python 2. Then installed Python 3. Then the package pyudev (pip3 install pyudev) and tried some tweaks to the scripts. But, I couldn't pass this error: Solaar: missing required system package python3-pyudev. Luckily, the answer from @Alonzzo2 worked just fine.