If I may ask, why do you care about your touch pad? At least for me, it pains me to use a touchpad while knowing I could interface with the computer faster with

If I may ask, why do you care about your touch pad? At least for me, it pains me to use a touchpad while knowing I could interface with the computer faster with a mouse. BTW, the jumpiness is probably configurable, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration For example (if you want to use X Windows), when I do xinput list I get ... ⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=15 [slave pointer (2)] ... and then I would do xinput list-props 15 and play with "Coordinate Transformation Matrix", or "libinput Accel Speed" for speed and acceleration.