On November 3, 2003 11:26 pm, Jon Copeland wrote: > hi all, > > excluding the use of kde what other gui's provide an intuitive user > experience that excludes the hassles of unmanageable interfaces. i have > tried kde / gnome / windowmaker and one or two others and i have noticed > that they all suffer from a single problem that i hope is my machine only > (or possibly xfree related). the mouse lacks a massive amount of > responsiveness with regards to how you use the gui as opposed to other OS's > like macos and windows. what is it about linux that makes the mouse a > practically unusable instrument? am i the only one that sees this? is this > an already known problem without a fix in sight? my specs fyi: dexxa > optical mouse ps/2, suse8.2 > > anyway as silly as it sounds this is the only thing holding me back from > using linux for productivity reasons on a larger scale. dont get me wrong, > i *am* using linux for servers but without a gui and for that i have no > qualm. > but it looks like something as trivial as this is not as apparent a problem > in the community than i thought. > > am i wrong on this, please by all means tell me i am. > > -j-
Hi Jon, What exactly do you mean by unresponsive? Do you find that the mouse cursor is too slow (i.e. you have to move the mouse large distances) or do you find the cursor position doesn't update enough and feels "chunky"? If the first case, try adding the following line to your /etc/init.d/XF86Config-4 file in the section the mouse is configured in and restart X: Option "Resolution" "1600" You can play with the value yourself to find something suitable but I like 1600. I've experienced the second problem with my 2.6-test6 kernel because the ps2 mouse polling rate was changed to 60Hz from 100Hz but if you're using a 2.4 kernel it should still be 100Hz. I had to recompile ps2 mouse support as a module and pass in my desired polling rate as a parameter when loaded. I think adding the mouse resolution option to your X config will solve your problem. ~Scott
