On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Dirk wrote:
> Are you f&^$ing kidding me? :O
No, I'm not. It's a perfectly valid question.
>
> By "disable" I mean I want "NO" mouse acceleration...
With no mouse acceleration your cursor wouldn't move. Recall that
acceleration is the second time derivative of po
>> The bottom sticker of my mouse says 2000 DPI... so I want to move the
>> pointer 2000 pixels when i move the mouse an inch... NO MATTER HOW FAST I
>> MOVE THE MOUSE.
> These are device pixels, not screen pixels. I really hope you didn't
> need me to explain this.
Well... the thing I tried to e
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote:
> People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons or
> move windows are not bright enough to realize the absence of
> acceleration anyways.
Sorry for not being bright enough for you, but I do enjoy acceleration.
Xav
_
Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to
interfere with your games, yet.
Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote:
>> People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons or
>> move windows are not bright enough to reali
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:13:01 Dirk wrote:
> Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to
> interfere with your games, yet.
>
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote:
> >> People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click
Dirk wrote:
>>> The bottom sticker of my mouse says 2000 DPI... so I want to move the
>>> pointer 2000 pixels when i move the mouse an inch... NO MATTER HOW FAST I
>>> MOVE THE MOUSE.
>> These are device pixels, not screen pixels. I really hope you didn't
>> need me to explain this.
>
>
> Well...
Corbin Simpson wrote:
> Dirk wrote:
The bottom sticker of my mouse says 2000 DPI... so I want to move the
pointer 2000 pixels when i move the mouse an inch... NO MATTER HOW FAST I
MOVE THE MOUSE.
>>> These are device pixels, not screen pixels. I really hope you didn't
>>> need me to
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:58:58PM +0100, Dirk wrote:
> Right now I run a script that calls xset 30 times a minute with sleeps
> as a cronjob to make sure it stays disabled.
Why not jsut disable mouse accel in desktop environment preferences to
not have gnome-settings-daemon¹ reseting it?
¹ o
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Dirk wrote:
> Well... the thing I tried to explain is that I (and other people) don't want
> to /have/ to give a f***...
>
> 1) I plug in 2000 dpi mouse
> 2) I move mouse 1 inch horizontally and/or vertically
> 3) pointer moves 2000 pixels horizontally and/or vert
Dirk wrote:
> Well I had read the xset manual but it kept re-enabling itself.
I'd say it was re-enabled by something else. Probably your desktop
environment. Yet, to Xorg, a notable difference.
> I didn't know I had to read /many/ manuals to permanently disable mouse
> acceleration in Linux... bu
Ben Gamari wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Dirk wrote:
>> Well... the thing I tried to explain is that I (and other people) don't want
>> to /have/ to give a f***...
>>
>> 1) I plug in 2000 dpi mouse
>> 2) I move mouse 1 inch horizontally and/or vertically
>> 3) pointer moves 2000 pixel
Simon Thum wrote:
> Dirk wrote:
>> Well I had read the xset manual but it kept re-enabling itself.
> I'd say it was re-enabled by something else. Probably your desktop
> environment. Yet, to Xorg, a notable difference.
If even happens in fvwm1...
>> I didn't know I had to read /many/ manuals to p
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:07:25PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:
> If you have a problem with HAL, report a bug. Uninstalling isn't the
> answer. It is an increasingly common dependency on the desktop and for
> good reason.
I don't think there exists even one good reason for HAL to be a common
dependen
Ben Gamari wrote:
> because you might need your mouse to move exactly 2.3442 pixels per
> millimeter doesn't mean that the rest of the world does as well.
"there is no need for more than 640k RAM"
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Dirk wrote:
> I was referring to reading /many/ manuals as a relic of the nineties.
Oh, I got that, I just used it as a starter :)
>
> I'll try this on another machine as soon as it is in debian/unstable (if
> not already)... It would be great it this works and can't be overriden
> by anything.
If
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:56:33PM +, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:13:01 Dirk wrote:
> > Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to
> > interfere with your games, yet.
> >
> > Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Di
On 26 Feb 2009, Dirk uttered the following:
> I don't think I'll make them stop developing HAL.
I'm sorry, Dirk, I'm afraid we can't do that.
(because *someone* had to say it)
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