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#1 2009-06-15 17:58:14
- noahsark1126
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Workarounds for a really sensitive mouse
I have a laser mouse, which is wonderful, except that it's extremely sensitive when I sometimes don't want it to be. There are two things I'd like to workaround:
- When my screen goes off, if the mouse get's moved even a tiny bit, the screen will come back on. Sometimes simply walking by my desk will be enough. Is there a way to disable mouse moving from bringing the screen back on entirely? I can just click the mouse or use the keyboard.
- Sometimes when I click, it thinks I'm trying to click-drag because I move the cursor a few pixels. Is there a way to increase that threshold, to say, 5 pixels, so that if I click drag for 5 pixels or less it will still just detect a click?
Thanks!
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#2 2009-06-15 20:06:22
- beroal
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Re: Workarounds for a really sensitive mouse
There is a slider in Gnome changing drag-and-drop threshold. You can slow down mouse with the following string in HAL's file:
<merge key="input.x11_options.ConstantDeceleration" type="string">10</merge>
we are not condemned to write ugly code
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#3 2009-06-15 20:14:59
- Ashren
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Re: Workarounds for a really sensitive mouse
Velcro mouse mat?
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#4 2009-06-15 21:44:02
- noahsark1126
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Re: Workarounds for a really sensitive mouse
Thanks, that fixes the drag threshold. Isn't there an event somewhere that allows the mouse to turn the screen back on? If I knew where it was, I could just comment it out or something.
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