i would like all mice that i plug into my pc to have no mouse accel by default and for there to be no mouse accel in the login screen.
I have not tested this, but you might be able to set the default pointer acceleration in KDE/plasma to none by putting the following line in the [Mouse] section of $HOME/.config/kcminputrc
PointerAccelerationProfile=1
This won’t affect the login screen though.
The way I understand the situation is:
- pointer acceleration is handled by libinput.
- libinput does not have configuration files, but is intstead only configured by the running compositor (kwin in case of plasma - based on user preferences).
- Login managers have do their own compositing & don’t load user prefs.
That means: unless the login manager offers you a way to set libinput options, there might be no way to do that.