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#1 2014-05-18 12:48:48

empthollow
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Registered: 2009-09-26
Posts: 168

[SOLVED] Mouse Speed w/o settings daemon

Lately I have been having some problems with mouse speed inconsistency when using a KVM switch.  My prefered setting for my mouse is

xset m 1

If I switch over to my laptop using my KVM switch, then switch back, the mouse settings I have in xinitrc are lost.  I have been using gnome-settings-daemon running with compiz but:
1. It has been crashing lately
2. It overkill and does much more than I need
3. As part of gnome I prefer not to rely on it for my non-gnome needs

I have done much googling but have not found how to change the X default mouse speed setting to equate to the 'xset m 1' command.  Since this is linux, i am guessing it is not hard coded and is in a file somewhere it is just not well documented or well talked about.  Does anyone know how to change the default X mouse speed settings?

Last edited by empthollow (2014-05-18 13:55:59)


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#2 2014-05-18 13:28:00

Raynman
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Registered: 2011-10-22
Posts: 1,539

Re: [SOLVED] Mouse Speed w/o settings daemon

I had to find out first what that xset command does exactly. The man page says it sets the acceleration (and you can specify a second value to set the threshold). Googling "xorg mouse acceleration" brings me to our wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

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#3 2014-05-18 13:54:43

empthollow
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Registered: 2009-09-26
Posts: 168

Re: [SOLVED] Mouse Speed w/o settings daemon

That seems to have worked!  Don't know how I missed that.  I tried something with those same settings that failed, but that must have been for an older X server version.  Thanks!


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