I've recently started to use a Microsoft Arc Mouse and the first thing I noticed was that the mouse pointer was moving much too fast. Even at the slowest setting available in System Settings, it was still too fast.
After some search, I had come up with an autostart script that slows things down to a speed I can handle. #~/.kde/Autostart/slow-down-mouse #! /bin/sh -e MOUSE="Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v5.0" xinput set-prop "$MOUSE" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 8 xinput set-prop "$MOUSE" "Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration" 8 xinput set-prop "$MOUSE" "Device Accel Profile" 2 This is rather inelegant as it is only for one user and only takes effect after KDE has started. Through further searching I found that I ought to be able to set things according to my preferences in a configuration file like this #/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mouse-acceleration.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "Microsoft Arc Mouse" Driver "evdev" MatchUSBID "045e:074f" Option "AccelerationProfile" "2" Option "ConstantDeceleration" "8" Option "AdaptiveDeceleration" "8" EndSection Indeed, this achieves the desired effect before KDE is started; while the KDM greeter (login screen) is shown, the mouse is slowed down properly. But later in KDE, the mouse is again at undiminished speed. It seems as if KDE is doing something here that it ought not to. On a slightly different note, I'm curious how others deal with their mice. Am I just manually challenged and everyone else actually wants their mouse in turbo mode? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105170121.38431.michael.li...@schuerig.de