Re: Is there no way to RELIABLY disable mouse acceleration in Linux?
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24.02.2009 at 06:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Dirk <noisyb@gmail.com> was
> > heard to say:
> > > Everytime I start a game the mouse input is accelerated or just
> > > messed up...
> > >
> > > I turned "xset m 0 0" into a cronjob now that runs the command 30
> > > times every minute...
> >
> > I would be astonished if running "xset" in a cronjob did anything.
>
> Or that cron can do anything on a time resolution of less than one
> minute...
or that xset m 0 0 (as opposed to xset m 1 1) did anything to disable mouse
acceleration in a reliable way...
That said, it is know that either KDE or GNOME screws this up and resets it
often. I don't know which one (could be both).
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