On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:51:28PM +0100, Simon Thum wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 19 December 2009, Simon Thum wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> I would tend to agree. With modern high resolution mice, I have often > >>> wished I could set the gain to a below 1 condition. My mouse now uses > >>> about a 1" x1.35" area of the pad, to cover a 1680x1250 screen, so its > >>> way too fast for this user. > >> I'm not sure I got it. What you describe is 'constant deceleration' (see > >> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration), > >> however the OP maintains it's not working properly. > >> > > It is not, in kde, if I set the pointer accel to 0.5, the slow motion is > > normal, the fast motion is slowed, and that 'taint' what we need. :) > KDE doesn't offer the full feature set of the X.org server. E.g. it > doesn't allow configuring multiple devices. > > Essentially, what you describe is now a workaround - you're abusing > acceleration to scale your device. KDE alone won't let you do better.
> > What we need is the ability to scale the input down, and then apply the > > accel > > rules as usual. These 1600-3200 dpi optical mice will be the death of me > > yet! > Exactly what is implemented in X server 1.6 and above. See the wiki > page I gave above. > I think we* need to either implement the desktop integration soon or nudge the people capable of doing so. Having it exposed in the server is only half the solution. Cheers, Peter * "we" as the "not me" _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg