[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: XFree86

[Joel Sinor]

Actually I bit the bullet and it seems that indeed this can be set on
the fly with the xset command.  One more hurdle out of my way! :).


 On Thu, 01 May 2003 22:46:38 -0500
kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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