retitle 272280 xserver-xfree86: [mouse] change acceleration default to something that 'doesn't suck' reassign 272280 xserver-xfree86 severity 272280 wishlist tag 272280 + upstream moreinfo thanks On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:15:25PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote: > Package: xbase-clients > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 > Severity: minor > > The default mouse acceleration on a new X install is abysmal. Please > document and make default the xset options to make it not suck. See > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpert&m=101624642005523&w=2 I don't get many bug reports about mouse acceleration -- in fact, yours is the first I can recall -- so I suspect that you are in a minority in feeling that the default mouse acceleration parameters "suck". That, or something unusual is going on in your particular configuration. When you first launch the X server, what mouse acceleration is reported? You can find out by running "xset q". For example, I get: Pointer Control: acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4 ...which works satisfactorily for me. -- G. Branden Robinson | The Bible is probably the most Debian GNU/Linux | genocidal book ever written. branden@debian.org | -- Noam Chomsky http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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