Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per second). The worst problem caused by this is that the monitor can wake up at seemingly random times.
One solution would be to switch off the monitor every time I won't use it for a few minutes, but (AFAIK) this would waste energy and reduce lifetime. I want the DPMS modes of standby, suspend, off. Another solution would be to buy another mouse, but this would cost money and would not teach me the solution (this problem can manifest again in the future, with this or another computer). So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion. Either to shut down mouse motion completely, or to allow it but to ignore it for the effect considering the computer as idle. I have performed a quick read of kernel code and of the xorg.conf man page but I see no clue. Anybody knows? -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
