Of mice and men, but mostly mice

[Tony Mantler <nicoya@apia.dhs.org>]

I'm assuming this is the right address to send this to, please correct me
if I am in error.

I've written some software that could use debianizing, and I'd like to
encourage some kind package maintainer out there to package it. It can be
obtained from <http://www.apia.dhs.org/software/macc/>.

Anyways, the story:

I hate mouse acceleration under linux, mostly because there pretty much is
none, and what is there is disgustingly linear and imprecise and not even
worthy of the term 'acceleration'.

So, I fixed it.

Through the wonders of mathemagic, my program (MAcc), reads in mouse data
in ps/2 or imps/2 format, accelerates it in a delightfully smooth and
precise non-linear fasion, and then spits it back out again to a fifo for
reading by (for example) an X server.

This allows you to both split pixels at low mouse velocities, and at the
same time lets you zip across even the largest screen without needing a
4-foot mousepad (It works great with trackballs too). Cool, huh? 8)


It's been tested to function on both PowerPC and ix86.


Anyways...

Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


--
Tony "Nicoya" Mantler - Renaissance Nerd Extraordinaire - nicoya@apia.dhs.org
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada           --           http://nicoya.feline.pp.se/