Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:07:46AM +1000, david wrote: David, I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. I've had the same problem since upgrading to Intrepid. I searched Launchpad after upgrading (a few months ago) and found it was a known bug. I can't point you to the bug though because I've just had a look again and now can't find it. I'm hoping it'll be fixed in Jaunty. John -- Every time I have to pipe something into awk I get this mental picture of a big fat seagull with stdin connected at the wrong end. -- Arthur van der Harg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Solved! Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
H.. you are a genius.. works. the rates you gave are apparently maximums for intel x86, and you are right that it must be run as root. My cursor now is back to it's lively old self! Henare Degan wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 00:07, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. I've tried all the usual things wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. Any suggestions? Hi David, Have you tried resetting the keyboard repeat rate? kbdrate should be the command you're looking for. Sane settings are (apparently) `kbdrate -r 30 -d 250`, and I think you need to run it as root (sorry can't test now). Cheers, h -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. I've tried all the usual things wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. Any suggestions? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:07 +1000, david wrote: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. I've tried all the usual things wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. Any suggestions? Do you have graphic effects enabled? I have a lot of conflict with rdesktop (remote windows access) and compiz, keyboard slow or buggered functioning. What application are you using? What graphics hardware? Drivers for screen? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. Did you check your desktop environment system settings area for mouse configuration, and verify that cursor acceleration is still correctly configured? Did you recently move to a version of X with device hotplug through HAL, requiring you to configure your cursor through an FDI file if you want anything but the driver defaults? Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net writes: [... a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff ...] david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. You miss one key concept in a paragraph, and viola, a pointless and unrelated set of comments. *sigh* Sorry about that. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
Daniel Pittman wrote: Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net writes: [... a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff ...] david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. You miss one key concept in a paragraph, and viola, a pointless and unrelated set of comments. *sigh* Sorry about that. Don't be sorry! it proves it's not just mere mortals like myself that miss key concepts ;-) Other folks making mistakes is an important prophylaxis against pathological feelings of inadequacy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
Ken Foskey wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:07 +1000, david wrote: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. I've tried all the usual things wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. Any suggestions? Do you have graphic effects enabled? I have a lot of conflict with rdesktop (remote windows access) and compiz, keyboard slow or buggered functioning. What application are you using? What graphics hardware? Drivers for screen? I've tried turning effects off, but it makes no difference. I'm using Intrepid, NVidia 8600 with whatever driver Intrepid likes to install. Software is TextEditor, Vim, thunderbird (typically). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 00:07, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed. I've tried all the usual things wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. Any suggestions? Hi David, Have you tried resetting the keyboard repeat rate? kbdrate should be the command you're looking for. Sane settings are (apparently) `kbdrate -r 30 -d 250`, and I think you need to run it as root (sorry can't test now). Cheers, h -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
