On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:15:58PM -0800, Michael Toomim wrote:
>Does anyone know of any programs, patches, drivers, etc. that allow for 
>a better mouse cursor acceleration than what X does?
>
>The current method of multiplying the mouse's velocity by a constant 
>whenever the motion exceeds a certain threshold isn't as nice and usable 
>as the extremely smooth polynomial, exponential, etc. acceleration 
>mechanisms that have been the standard in all the other modern windowing 
>systems (windows, macos, etc.).
>
>Alternatively, does anyone know why the X mouse acceleration system 
>sucks so much? :)

The XFree86 mouse acceleration code has been using a different
algorithm from this (a smooth one) for a few years when the threshold
is set to 0.  The traditional algorithm is still used when the
threshold is non-zero.

If you have a better alternative, feel free to submit a patch that
implements it.

David
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David Dawes
Senior X Architect                              Tungsten Graphics, Inc
www.XFree86.org/~dawes                          www.tungstengraphics.com
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