That's exactly what I was hoping for.  Thank you for the help.

Jeff


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
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