mouse accel rate issue

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, dep wrote:
% greets.
% 
% my beloved kensington trackball appears to have given up the ghost; it 
% was a serial version whose cable i thought had gone screwy, but a new 
% one (which kensington, btw, sent free of charge even though the 
% trackball is about seven years old -- good company, imho) did not fix 
% it and i don't know that i'll be able to do all the tracing to fix 
% the scewey connection in the circuit itself.
% 
% so i got a whole new one, same model only now it's usb/ps2 instead of 
% serial. which is no big deal (though i think the old one was made a 
% little better) except that mouse acceleration both in gdm and kde are 
% now all screwy. yeah, i reconfigured for a ps2 instead of serial 
% mouse.
% 
% thing is, with the serial mouse movement per unit of trackball travel 
% was about three times what it is with the ps2 version. i can speed 
% things up somewhat, through the cli option in gdm and the preferences 
% panel in kde, but both of these want it to begin very slowly and then 
% speed up, while i'd just as soon the speed be consistent -- and 
% faster -- throughout.

$ xset q | grep -A 1 Pointer 
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4

So, to speed things up, change the first value:

$ xset m 4/1 4
$ xset q | grep -A 1 Pointer
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  4/1    threshold:  4

Or, more succicntly, "man xset", paying special attention to the section
for the "m" option, which controls mouse operation. 

Kurt
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