[6513] in RedHat Linux List
Mouse movement, can't log in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William T Wilson)
Wed Nov 27 20:19:30 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:17:56 -0500 (EST)
From: William T Wilson <fluffy@benatar.res.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: William T Wilson <fluffy@benatar.res.cmu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19961128001335.23688.qmail@mail2.redhat.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
First, to the person who does not know the username to log in: Unless you
have added more users to your system, the username is "root". However,
you should try to avoid using root for everything; add a user for yourself
(using the X Windows "glint" control panel, or the "adduser" command) and
do most of your stuff in the user account, only using root when you need
to. It's easy to accidentally break things while root.
For mouse movement:
> Unfortunately, I apparently didn't explain my request properly. I don't
> want to speed it up. The accelerated movement is not precise enough for
So if I understand properly, you don't like the acceleration part. What
you want is a way to move the mouse slowly, and still have acceleration.
What I would suggest would be to look in the man page for xset for a
detailed description, but the format is like this:
xset <device, m for mouse> <speed> [threshold]
Multiplier is the number of pixels the mouse needs to move in a certain
amount of time in order to accelerate. Setting the threshold value lower
means you can move the mouse more slowly and still get the acceleration
boost. If you set it to 0, there will be no acceleration at all and the
mouse will simply go much faster at all times. I personally would
recommend setting it to 2 or 3 (you still are accelerated 90% of the time
but if you DO need slow movement you can still get it), but poke around
and see how it goes.
speed is the multiplier, so if you cross the threshold value, it will
accelerate by <speed> times normal.
So you would want something like "xset m 8 1" which will give you a very
speedy mouse indeed, almost all the time. Unfortunately, it will still be
rather "jerky" and bad for precision movement. I myself use xset m 6 5
which gives decent acceleration and not very much jerkiness. For what
it's worth, I like MS-Windows' mouse movement a lot better than X Windows'
mouse movement too (I'm using XFree). Does anybody know if maybe
AcceleratedX or <gasp> MetroX has better mouse movement? I don't know of
a way to make the mouse simply run faster all around... maybe you can set
something in XF86Config (maybe the SampleRate setting _might_ work?),
maybe in xinitrc, maybe you would have to alter the X-Server source and
recompile (which would be a pain but could be done).
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
