Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Dirk
gaming. Do I really have to compile xorg myself to make sure mouse acceleration is disabled and STAYS disabled? Why do I need Mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons anyways? I would really like to have an option in xorg.conf that would disable this permanently(!)... Thanks, Dirk

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote: People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons or move windows are not bright enough to realize the absence of acceleration anyways. Sorry for not being bright enough for you, but I do enjoy acceleration. Xav

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Dirk
Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to interfere with your games, yet. Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote: People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons or move windows are not bright enough to realize

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:13:01 Dirk wrote: Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to interfere with your games, yet. Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote: People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Corbin Simpson
Dirk wrote: The bottom sticker of my mouse says 2000 DPI... so I want to move the pointer 2000 pixels when i move the mouse an inch... NO MATTER HOW FAST I MOVE THE MOUSE. These are device pixels, not screen pixels. I really hope you didn't need me to explain this. Well... the thing I

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Dirk
Corbin Simpson wrote: Dirk wrote: The bottom sticker of my mouse says 2000 DPI... so I want to move the pointer 2000 pixels when i move the mouse an inch... NO MATTER HOW FAST I MOVE THE MOUSE. These are device pixels, not screen pixels. I really hope you didn't need me to explain this.

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:58:58PM +0100, Dirk wrote: Right now I run a script that calls xset 30 times a minute with sleeps as a cronjob to make sure it stays disabled. Why not jsut disable mouse accel in desktop environment preferences to not have gnome-settings-daemon¹ reseting it? ¹ or

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Ben Gamari
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Dirk noi...@gmx.net wrote: Well... the thing I tried to explain is that I (and other people) don't want to /have/ to give a f***... 1) I plug in 2000 dpi mouse 2) I move mouse 1 inch horizontally and/or vertically 3) pointer moves 2000 pixels horizontally

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Dirk
Ben Gamari wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Dirk noi...@gmx.net wrote: Well... the thing I tried to explain is that I (and other people) don't want to /have/ to give a f***... 1) I plug in 2000 dpi mouse 2) I move mouse 1 inch horizontally and/or vertically 3) pointer moves 2000

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Simon Thum
Dirk wrote: I was referring to reading /many/ manuals as a relic of the nineties. Oh, I got that, I just used it as a starter :) I'll try this on another machine as soon as it is in debian/unstable (if not already)... It would be great it this works and can't be overriden by anything. If you

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and?click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:56:33PM +, Bill Crawford wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:13:01 Dirk wrote: Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to interfere with your games, yet. Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote: