Mouse precision & acceleration in X+Xfce4

[Nikola Lecic]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:22:01 +0100
Graham Bentley <admin at cpcnw.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Is there anyone who has played with mouse pointer (cursor?)
> settings in X / Xfce4?
> 
> I am using a TFT at 1280 x 1024 and just cant seem to get
> speed / acceleration / accuracy that I am happy with.
> 
> If I speed things up in Xfce4 I can cover greater screen
> area with less hand movement but the accuracy when stopping
> at targets is bad (small buttons like on xmms for example)
> 
> I would be interested to hear from anyone who has 
> this (c)licked !!!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Graham
> 
> ps My xorg mouse section is ;
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Identifier  "Mouse0"
>  Driver      "mouse"
>  Option     "Protocol" "auto"
>  Option     "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>  Option     "ZaxisMapping" "4 5"
>  Option     "Resolution" "1200"
> EndSection

Hello Graham,

You need to set the mouse acceleration and threshold to get an optimal
behaviour. You should check 'man xset', search for 'm' (mouse). For
example, 'xset m 5 9' yields a medium behaviour. If you experience
problems with high Resolution, you can try something like 

  % xset m 3/5 1

i.e. to choose fractional value for acceleration and 1 for threshold.

However, I simply use Xfce's Mouse Preferences for the same purpose
(to speed up my mouse) and it just works.

Nikola Lečić