Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

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	Mr McKinney suggestion is in all ways the right one,  but if you are more of 
a GUI oriented user or a newbie you might find it helpful (if you are using 
KDE, Gnome or some such desktop manager) to find your control center/panel 
(usually on taskbar or in main menu) and look under peripheral or mouse etc 
for controls to adjust your mouse settings.  Max




On Friday 17 May 2002 04:33 pm, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> Make your mouse scream acrossed the screen.
>  This is a quick trick for changing your mouse speed. First open up a
> terminal window, depending on your Dektop environment, this could vary. The
> command xset is used to change mouse speed. Its format is:
>
> xset m [acc_mult[/acc_div] [thr]]
>
> The two important parameters are acceleration and threshold, meaning that
> it will move X (acceleration) amount of times as fast when it travels X
> (threshold) amount of pixels.
>
> xset m 12 2
>
> ....means we have our acceleration to 12, yet turned the threshold down to
> 2 pixels. This will definately make your mouse scream acrossed the screen.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Burness [mailto:pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:17 PM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SLE] mouse speed
>
>
> How do I change the speed of my mouse in X?
>
> Phil