Re: Mouse smoothness - or lack thereof
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 19.51, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Thomas Adam wrote:
> > --- "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com> wrote:
> >I would imagine that's just a front-end to "xset m <foo>". Either way
> > that command is only useful once the correct protocol is being used.
> >
> >-- Thomas Adam
>
> Thanx, but I found a different answer. Further googling revealed the
> existence of the "Resolution" option. So in my XF86Config-4, I added
>
> Option "Resolution" "1600"
>
> to my mouse section - much better!!
That helps a little yes. However, mouse acceleration in Xfree86 generally
sucks. There is no "dynamic" acceleration as in Windows where the pointer
accelerates exponentially the faster you move the mouse (as in Windows
and MacOS). There are just two modes, either normal (when you move slower
than a threshold) or fast (when you move faster than the threshold). This
results in weird behaviour when you are close or at the threshold.
There are two solutions to this as far as I know:
Macc, a user space program to add exponential acceleration. However I have
not yet got this to work with any 2.6 kernel:
http://www.apia.dhs.org/software/macc/
Use the undocumented expontential acceleration in xset (a bit difficult
tuning though):
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpert&m=101624642005523&w=2
Third way is to just learn to live with it. After a while you get used to
it.
Regards
Olle Eriksson
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