mouse motion treshold and acceleration

teicah teicah at isp.com
Mon Jul 4 23:13:19 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 12:03 PM -0500 7/4/05, teicah wrote:
> 
> >Could someone recommend values here.  The defaults do not feel snappy
> >enough.  I have been playing with the mouse preferences, but still not
> >happy.
> 
> I just fiddle around in gnome-mouse-properties motion tab (usually opened
> from Applications menu Preferences submenu Mouse item).
> 
> In my opinion, the labels Acceleration: and Sensitivity: are backwards.  I
> set the so-called "Sensitivity:" (acceleration, actually) to minimum so the
> mouse will move predictably the same amount no matter how fast or slow I
> move it.  I set "Acceleration:" (sensitivity) so that the mouse traverses
> the whole screen in the distance I want.  Even if you like mouse
> acceleration, you might find setup easier with it set to minimum.
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> 

Anyways, I am happy now.  I went to the %gconf.xml file, and have only
the motion_threshold and motion_acceleration entries with 5.5 and 3.5
values respectively.  It feels just good.

http://members.isp.com/teicah@isp.com/gnome%20stuff/%25gconf.xml
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