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kwurzel

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Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 14

[solved] damn fast cursor (and sometimes small fonts) in gdm and GNOME

Hey there!

Since yesterday's pacman -Syu (unfortunately I can't remember the packages beeing updated ), my cursor moves damn fast, i.e. the cursor is very (very! ) sensitive to mouse movements! I have a Logitech MX Laser, but it's the same with an old mechanical mouse.

My second problem (that came up a long time ago) is that gdm sometimes has a smaller fontsize (i.e. text entered in the login textfield is smaller than usual); and I have to restart X to reset the fontsize, otherwise it will be the same in GNOME. That often occurs after an update on X.

Any hints for me (mainly for the first one, I can live with the second...)? Thank you!

Last edited by kwurzel (2008-03-26 12:44:35)

varl

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Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 51

Re: [solved] damn fast cursor (and sometimes small fonts) in gdm and GNOME

There is a log of what packages where updated in "/var/log/pacman.log" I think.

Then there is a cache of the old packages (unless you've already run "pacman -Scc") in "/var/cache/pacman/pkg".
You can revert with "pacman -U"-ing the previous package version in that folder.

Good luck.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: [solved] damn fast cursor (and sometimes small fonts) in gdm and GNOME

Try appending this resolution line to the mouse section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I think setting a lower value will reduce the sensitivity.

Identifier     "Mouse1"
Driver         "mouse"
Option         "Protocol" "Auto"    # Auto detect
Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option         "Resolution" "128"

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-26 11:48:39)

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kwurzel

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Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 14

Re: [solved] damn fast cursor (and sometimes small fonts) in gdm and GNOME

Okay, thank you for the tipps! I just removed my xorg.conf and XF86config-4 and tested X without, and it worked again. So i just took the old xorg.conf, removed all unnecessary items and it's perfect. :-)