On Fri, 2002-02-22 ,"Jeff Schmidt" <j at 4dvfx.com> wrote: > Sorry for not being more clear on this. basically what I'm talking = > about is this. You have 2 settings in the Gnome Control Center for the = > mouse. Acceleration and Threshold. Ah, I see. Well, this is just a gui wrapper around xset(1x), which adjusts the basic parameters of the X Server (the underlying part of the gui that handles the actual screen, as opposed to the window manager (Enlightenment, for example) or the Desktop Environment (GNOME, KDE, etc). To see the values which you currently have set, you can issue the command: $ xset q (with out the $) in a window. This will tell you lots of little bits of useful info. The part you want is the "Pointer Control" section. On my machine, that bit reads: Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 According to the man page: parameters for the mouse are `acceleration' and `threshold'. The acceleration can be specified as an integer, or as a simple fraction. The mouse, or whatever pointer the machine is connected to, will go `acceleration' times as fast when it trav els more than `threshold' pixels in a short time. This way, the mouse can be used for precise align ment when it is moved slowly, yet it can be set to travel across the screen in a flick of the wrist when desired. One or both parameters for the m option can be omitted, but if only one is given, it will be interpreted as the acceleration. If no parameters or the flag 'default' is used, the sys tem defaults will be set. > I don't like the way the cursor will speed up depending on how fast you = > move the mouse. That sounds like you want to set the acceleration to 1. This will cause the pointer to move at exactly the same rate as your mouse. Threshold is irrelevant in that case. The command to do this is: $ xset mouse 1 (again, without the $) If this provides the result you wanted, you will want to make sure that this command is run each time you start your GNOME session. (Probably you will want to read up on gdm). BTW, thanks for asking the question ... I've kicked my accel up to 4 now, which rocks hard on a trackball. ;-) Michael Kellen -- $ fortune -m Kellen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020223/6b7f3bdb/attachment.pgp