Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness
> >How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I
> >almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the
> >screen? It's a PS/2 mouse.
> >
> >I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting
> >things in X? X is accessing the mouse directly, not via the GPM repeater.
>
> I have a similar problem. I am using the gpm repeater(/dev/gpmdata)
> to pass the input of two pointers, a keypad pointer(/dev/ttyS0) and a
> mouse(/dev/psaux) to gpm and X. The pointer is more responsive so I
> have lowered it with gpm and that works find under the tty's.
>
> gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -M -m /dev/ttyS0 -t ms -r 2
>
> However X does not seem to pay attention to what gpm has set for the
> pointer responsiveness so the cursor is super sensitive with the
> pointer and normal with the mouse.
As I suspected, if X reads the mouse directly (and it does unless you are
using it with GPM's "repeater" mode, the settings made via GPM won't affect
X.
The "xset m <num> <threshold>" command (in your .xsession) works pretty
well, though.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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