Manual Mouse Sensitivity setting on Linux (Ubuntu): Xinput

It drives me crazy the way my mouse pointer jumps out of focus accidentally. I couldn't find the setting to reduce the sensitivity in Ubuntu.
Fun fact: I just published this post mid editing. Annoying.
Looking around at the community site, I found this.

So basically you use xinput to poke around your input devices
xinput list to show you your input device list and input device id. My touchpad is 17.

xinput --watch-props 17 shows my touchpad setting. What you want to watch for is synaptics finger for making it less sensitive to move the touchpad around.

There are also other features available depending on your hardware.
Go nuts. I still haven't found my sweet spot and I'm hating this touchpad more and more.

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