Like many users out there, I like my mouse pointer to be very fluid and precise but also I want it to be able to move very fast. Unfortunately, if I want my pointer to go fast, I need to change the acceleration value, and that causes it to be jumpy, unprecise. Although it IS possible to have it precise, acceleration has to be set very low, and therefore speed gets very low too. What I am hereby requesting, and I think X needs this very very badly, is simply a "speed" setting for the mouse in X. I want to be able to set low or no acceleration at all, and still be able to set my speed to any value I want. That would give it a great, fluid feel, and remove the jumpyness effect. I'm aware that there's a good change it's already in the TODO list, I just wanted to point out the issue if it's not :) Thank you
I think the whole mouse acceleration thing should be redone. I think it is impossible to turn of acceleration completely, I'm not sure, but I think it is... I'm having troubles finding it in the xorg codebase thoguh ... :/
Also ref bug 138 and bug 4490 .
everyone thinks they can do mouse acceleration better, and everyone always gets it wrong. we've gone through about three acceleration algorithms since 6.7 and there's no indication anyone prefers one over the other. this sort of request really needs to be accompanied by patches because otherwise the interpretation is totally up to whoever ends up implementing it.
*** Bug 4490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
ajax: note that this is not about acceleration. This bug is not INVALID. Jeff's request was for a way to set the *speed* of the mouse. This is currently not available. This is not a duplicate of 138 or 4490. It was possible to set the Resolution on some PS/2 mice. This does not work on most USB mice and with the newer 800dpi mice the speed is stuck at 2x. It appears that this could be tweaked in the kernel as a compilation option but that is a long way from a runtime adjustment. I'll say this again in a few ways to make it perfectly clear: * acceleration is not speed * speed could also be called "scale" or "resolution" * speed is the ratio between how far I move the mouse and how far the pointer moves * this cannot be changed with xset * this has absolutely nothing to do with how fast the mouse moves --Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm at cpan dot org>
(In reply to comment #5) > ajax: note that this is not about acceleration. This bug is not INVALID. No, it is about acceleration. The feature you're describing is a linear scaling from 1 unit of mouse movement to N units of pixel movement, and that by itself is broken. You _have_ to have the ability to move by exactly one pixel. So any implementation of scaling has to be done simultaneously with modifying the acceleration code. Which we have done, time and again, and no one has ever come up with any measurable improvement.
> The feature you're describing is a linear scaling > from 1 unit of mouse movement to N units of pixel movement Actually, I want a linear scaling of N units of mouse to 1 unit of pixel. This is what is actually missing. The OP wants his mouse faster -- ok, that is a physical limitation of the resolution of his mouse hardware. I have a high-res mouse and want to slow it down. I need to be able to make large movements with the mouse and prevent it from bouncing around with very small movements. > So any implementation of scaling has to be done simultaneously > with modifying the acceleration code. Only with scaling *faster*, since as you pointed out: you have to be able to move by only one pixel. Sorry I had missed that bit. I'm happy to submit a separate "RFE: must be able to slow mouse down" or we can just change this one. Thanks, Eric
Hi! I have this same problem wiht my Logitech LX7. Mouse (poitter) is moving way to fast rendering it unusable. I upgraded my mouse from Logitech MouseMan wheel Optical to Logitech LX7. Now poiter is about 3 times faster than before. I can use xset m to tone it down but then it would be trade of with speed and accuracy. If I use "xset m 1/3 1" there is no acceleration only accurate and slow constant speed. This was my old mouse's normal speed. Other way around I can use "xset m 1 1" and the speed would be like my old mouse's accelerated speed (with out accuracy). My soulution to this would be new function (speed-multiplier, acceleration, treshold) xset m <speed-multiplier> <acceleration> <treshold> "xset m 1/3 1 15" would make my new mouse act like old one. [Or if speed-multiplier is used as a default speed to acceleration and treshold my line would be: "xset m 1/3 5/2 5 (which might be bad since altering speed-multiplier affects all other setting to)] I have filled this bug-report to Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/51552
Hi, I have filed bug#8583, a patch which should solve the discussed problems. Comment encouraged. -- Simon
As reported in bug 3885 the documentation of xset does not mention a hidden feature avaliable since XFree86 in which a 0 in one of the mouse settings makes the system use a "slow motion gives precisse pointer, fast gives big screen jumps" system. For example I have a machine with "xset m 7/4 0" and it has a really nice mouse handling. Did that code get removed? I have to test newer Xorg, but I think it was there after the transition from XF86.
After some investigation, I think I found code that does something when threshold is 0. It starts at line 955 in http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c?view=annotate The other part of the if looks pretty much what everyone complains about two speed mouse. Also found a really old mail that seems to look similar to the above code. Maybe the changes mentioned by ajax are the differences, tho the annotate says it is rather and untouched code. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpert&m=101624642005523&w=2 I also just got the machine upgraded to 7.1.1 and it feels (no long testing so excuse me if it is my imagination) that the system works, precise for small movements, and side to side jump with a fast wrist shake. Is the above code not used for the mouse and I am seeing something else doing the acceleration? For all the people trying with xset m A/B N and similar, could you test xset m A/B 0? Thanks.
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Created attachment 9682 [details] [review] Patch implementing a mouse speed setting on a per-mouse basis As an owner of a high resolution bluetooth mouse I was very disappointed that I could barely use this mouse with my laptop since its speed was much too fast. The Option "Resolution" setting in the xorg.conf had no effect and setting a constand decelleration via xset was no option since that would render my touchpad unusable. Since the big google did not find any solution, and since the original code was open source and understandably written, I decided to take the matter into my own hands and wrote the following patch to add a per-pointing-device option to the xorg.conf that allowed me to change my mouse's sensitivity by an arbitrary factor independently from my touchpad response. The line Option "Sensitivity" ".5" in the Section "InputDevice" for my mouse now solves all my problems and might be of interest for others too. Although I can't really think about any use for real values >1, it is still possible. However this might make it impossible to point the mouse at certain pixels so use it with care. So please enjoy and let me hear about your opinions about this!
Closing - see Bug 8583. The new pointer accel code should provide enough options to tweak it to your preference (even on a per-device basis).
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