Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-11 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hey Harry Thanks for sharing your setup. It looks like you were able to adjust the mouse more to your liking anyhow. The Death Adder Classic does not look like it has a Physical DPI(Sensitivity) Switch on the mouse. You may want play with the DPI of the mouse additionally to the settings in H

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: [...] > At least it does provide the names of the variables and possible > values for them. That's really all that's needed to experiment > with some of the variables. Yes, I see that too ... thanks. A note just for completeness. In the OP of this thread I said the mouse

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Gary Mills writes: > > > I found a document on the web that actually explains what > > ConstantDeceleration does. It's this one: > > > > https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration/ > > Looking again no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Rainer Heilke
On 5/8/2017 1:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I vaguely remember from long ago (I think) there is a way to adjust some things on board the mouse itself... but have forgotten what that is. Please see below. I got it in 2013. It says only Deathadder on the back nothing about chroma. Yep, that wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > I found a document on the web that actually explains what > ConstantDeceleration does. It's this one: > > https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration/ > > It also describes the possible values of that option, as well as other > options that you c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: [...] > What I understood from your mails is that when you place the cursor on > an edge carefully and then try to catch the edge you can not grab it > as it basicly goes past what you want or not far enough. > > In this case I would put the cause for the twitchyness more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hey As a Gamer having played with mouse sensitivity for some time I can give some Insight into the different Values and what they do. Mouse acceleration: In Linux this is an exponential value that increases how much the cursor jumps on screen compared to actual Mouse movement done. I prefer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-07 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:32:36PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Gary Mills writes: > > You should find an empty directory /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user . > > Create a file 10-x11-input.fdi in that directory to reduce the mouse > > sensitivity. You have to restart HAL or log out and log in again to >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-06 Thread Jim Klimov
On May 6, 2017 5:28:21 PM GMT+03:00, Gary Mills wrote: >On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:32:36PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Thanks for your input... I found the the things you mentioned. >> >> The mouse seems pretty sluggish now and still pretty jumpy too but it >> is somewhat better... probably

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:32:36PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Thanks for your input... I found the the things you mentioned. > > The mouse seems pretty sluggish now and still pretty jumpy too but it > is somewhat better... probably about half as difficult to select the > corner of an applicat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:35:41AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Summary: mouse control is really touchy... trying to acquire the corner >> of an open window like an xterm, ff etc takes seconds to accomplish. >> The cursor turning to a corner looking icon that allows to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-05 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:35:41AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Summary: mouse control is really touchy... trying to acquire the corner > of an open window like an xterm, ff etc takes seconds to accomplish. > The cursor turning to a corner looking icon that allows to resize > jitters on and off

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Using Mate desktop on hipster... oi updated frequently... most recently yesterday. Hardware: HP xw8600 2x Xeon 5074 3.33 Ghz - 32 GB ram Mouse hardware: USB Razor - Death adder Also ... I work habitually thru a KVM switch and have for years. Sorry to bring something seemingly al