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yodo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

Posts: 71

Mouse cursor jumps downwards in certain games

Hi,
I'm not sure at all if its the right forum. Somehow no forum really fits to my problem. I post here because the problem occurs in games... although the games themselves work. If another forum would be better, please tell me and move the thread.

Thats the problem: Playing warsow (fullscreen or windowed) and in ScummVM (fullscreen) the cursor permanently moves downwards. While moving the mouse upwards normally, the cursor only moves upwards very slowly. When I don't move the mouse the cursor jumps to the screen-bottom.

Affected games can't be played properly... e.g. the warsow avatar keeps staring at the floor. Aimed shooting is impossible.

Probably there is something wrong with the mouse-configurations? This is my xorg.conf.

Anyone an idea what could cause the problem?

Greetings, yodo

Last edited by yodo (2008-05-16 10:34:10)

venox

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From: Curitiba, Brazil

Registered: 2003-08-23

Posts: 137

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Re: Mouse cursor jumps downwards in certain games

Are you running unclutter to hide your mouse cursor? I used to have similar issues when I tried playing games while running unclutter.

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yodo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

Posts: 71

Re: Mouse cursor jumps downwards in certain games

No, I don't use unclutter.

dabski

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Registered: 2008-02-07

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Re: Mouse cursor jumps downwards in certain games

Have you read this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 27#p324927

yodo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

Posts: 71

Re: Mouse cursor jumps downwards in certain games

No I did not. Seems to be the same problem. I can approve that my problem is connected to evdev too. With mouse everything works fine - except of the extra mouse buttons.
But the workaround does not work for me. Or do I just use it the wrong way?

For using tvbrowser with compiz I also need such a "export...." workaround which I wrote into tvbrowser.sh. That works.
Writing the mouse-workaround into the "warsow" file does not work.

Edit: After just executing the workaround the problem vanished at least for scummvm. Thanks for that.
Afaik those "export" commands only effect the current session and must be loaded again after reboot/logging-off. ?

Last edited by yodo (2008-05-20 08:49:42)

dabski

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Registered: 2008-02-07

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Re: Mouse cursor jumps downwards in certain games

Yes though you should be able to have your DE load the line for you.