Mouse movement issue!!

[batmanuser]

Hello

im new to linux

I'm looking to have the mouse movement from Windows XP here in linux, i'm guessing its due to the option on windows XP of (mouse acceleration feature)

I  find the mouse movement behavior here on linux hard to use on a game a play (warcraft2), its just not so accurate as in windows... so...i want to customize and maybe play with some options but i cant find any

Does anyone know how or what app is there to customize mouse movement acceleration,  etc... ?

I use Linux Tiny ME 2008!

Thanks.

[MaddogF16]

Maybe you should be trying at the ***** forums for an answer to this situation? Normally there's an entry in the main menu for the mouse or in the configuration center, but that project is unto itself.


Maddog

[Texstar]

Remove imwheel package if installed and use xset command.

Mouse acceleration settings typically can be configured using tools provided by your desktop environment. Alternatively, Xorg supplies similar methods more directly, using the xset command. Along with sensitivity, your mouse speed is controlled by acceleration and threshold levels. The command synopsis is xset m acceleration threshold.

For example:

xset m 4 1


Acceleration defines how many times faster the cursor will move than the default speed, when the cursor moves more than threshold pixels in a short time. Acceleration can be a fraction, so if you want to slow down the mouse you can use 1/2, and if 3 is slightly too fast, but 2 is too slow, you can use 5/2. You effectively disable the threshold by setting it to 1, that way the cursor will always move the same speed. To get the default settings back, type xset m default.
Disabling mouse acceleration

Mouse acceleration can be disabled using:

xset m 0 0

Query currently used settings

The current acceleration/threshold settings can be checked using:

xset q | grep -A 1 Pointer

For more info see man xset.

[jaynicks]

On hi-res screens any twitch while clicking an icon may move the icon instead of launching.  Pretty irritating.

It looks like acceleration is overriding click-through, so increase the threshold, as in
xset m 2 10
where the 10 apparently means you have to slide the mouse at least 10 pixels before mouse move defeats click
through.

seems to work, anyway.