Automatic mouse profile pointer speed switcher for laptops that want external USB mouse connected running Ubuntu

Why did you make this code snippet available?

I have an ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. UX330UAR/UX330UAR laptop that runs Ubuntu and when I connected an external USB mouse to the laptop the pointer speed would be too sensitive.

I wanted an easy way to monitor the connect/disconnect of the USB mouse and adjust the pointer speed without needing to manually adjust it each time I connected the USB mouse device.

When the USB mouse is connected it will automatically perform an $ xset m to modify the mouses acceleration and sensitivity.

When disconnected it will switch back to the laptops trackpad acceleration/sensitivity profile.

This script uses NodeJS and monitors the hardware level connections using the command $ udevadm monitor

This type of script should run as a background process. This tool might not be helpful for anyone else, but for me it made my life a bit easier and I decided to push it to this repository.

To update the mouse sensitivity you can modify the file ./config.json