[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: XFree86

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Joel Sinor wrote:
...
> No, what I am saying is that I would like to be able to change mouse
> acceleration on the fly (mouse acceleration being the rate at which the
> mouse speeds up over time) so that I could tune it.  Right now I have
> the following line in my .xinitrc:
> xset mouse 6 6
> the first part was a monkey number from google, but I did set the second
> number myself based on the man page.  This sets that the mouse will
> accelerate to 6x its normal speed after going past 6 pixels "quickly." 
> AFAIK you cannot make more than one acceleration level/point nore can
> you tune how fast the mouse must move to be accellerated under Linux
> currently, but you can set the things I mentioned.  In KDE there is a
> nifty control panel for this IIRC.  I have not tried doing xset again
> during a session, but I suppose experimentation is not going to kill me.

The xset command is the only way I'm aware of to do that.  And yes, 
experimentation is the only way, and no it won't kill you. (though it could 
make your mouse hard to use if you set it too high :-)

Mine is set to:

xset m 2/1 4

Try there and slowly change the various parts.

HTH,
Kevin