Recently I've been using a vintage Logitech optical mouse, but I have been looking for another mouse for a long time. I had a SteelSeries Kinzu, which was nice, but in less than a year its left button was broken (first time for me in over 25+ years of using mice).
Today I got a Microsoft Arc Mouse, despite it being branded by the evil empire. The first thing I noticed is that due to its high resolution it is much too sensitive. System Settings > Mouse > Advanced has a setting for the pointer acceleration, but even at 0.1, the lowest possible setting, the mouse pointer is still too fast for me. A bit of searching turned up the xinput utility and a way to slow the eager rodent down. $ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer ... ⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v5.0 id=18 [slave pointer (2)] ... $ xinput set-prop "Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v5.0" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 5 I haven't yet decided where this last line ought to go to make it permanent, and anyway, I think it is a kludgy solution. The KDE configuration tools ought to be able to set up a modern, high-resolution mouse. Are there non-KDE tools for this task? I remember 15 years back on Mac System 7 it was possible to define multiple thresholds and acceleration factors. Does X support this, too, even if there may not be a configuration GUI? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
