Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Thanks
On 03/02/2015 11:33 AM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Weat desktop are you running? KDE, Gnome ... What?
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/02/2015 11:33 AM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Weat desktop are you running? KDE, Gnome ... What?
Good question. KDE
On 03/02/2015 12:16 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/02/2015 11:33 AM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Weat desktop are you running? KDE, Gnome ... What?
Good question. KDE
Then use systemsettings -> (hardware) Input Devices -> mouse
That being said, you "basic mouse" may not have a lot of controls. You might not have, for example, the coutns per inch I have with my advanced mouse. You may have to rely on 'acceleration'
That being said, you can always go under the hood and start fiddling with custom X settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Do not alter what's there, add a "60-my_mouse.conf But make sure you know what you are doing!
ALL of the above will require restarting either KDE or the X server.
On 03/02/2015 10:12 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/02/2015 12:16 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/02/2015 11:33 AM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Weat desktop are you running? KDE, Gnome ... What?
Good question. KDE
Then use systemsettings -> (hardware) Input Devices -> mouse
That being said, you "basic mouse" may not have a lot of controls. You might not have, for example, the coutns per inch I have with my advanced mouse. You may have to rely on 'acceleration'
That being said, you can always go under the hood and start fiddling with custom X settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Do not alter what's there, add a "60-my_mouse.conf But make sure you know what you are doing!
That being said, I've not had to fiddle with mouse settings (beyond what was offered in Configure Desktop / Input Devices ) for a long LONG time, several releases. It has all the settings you should need in there.
John Andersen wrote:
On 03/02/2015 10:12 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/02/2015 12:16 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/02/2015 11:33 AM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Weat desktop are you running? KDE, Gnome ... What?
Good question. KDE
Then use systemsettings -> (hardware) Input Devices -> mouse
That being said, you "basic mouse" may not have a lot of controls. You might not have, for example, the coutns per inch I have with my advanced mouse. You may have to rely on 'acceleration'
That being said, you can always go under the hood and start fiddling with custom X settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Do not alter what's there, add a "60-my_mouse.conf But make sure you know what you are doing!
That being said, I've not had to fiddle with mouse settings (beyond what was offered in Configure Desktop / Input Devices ) for a long LONG time, several releases. It has all the settings you should need in there.
OK, thanks all. I'll check it when I get back to the lab on Thur. I did /not/ check "Configure Desktop" 'cause I thought that had more to do with the screen saver, background image, toolbar placement, stuff like that.
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:33, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@...> wrote:
Hello;
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
There /used/ to be a panel somewhere that allows this, and other things (like what do the mouse buttons do). I see config things for keyboards and such but not for the mouse.
Thanks
What tool and Desktop-Environment do you use?
KDE, GNOME, XFce, lxde all use their own version of "system settings", "settings", or what ever they call their version.
On command line there are xset and xinput to manipulate the "pointer acceleration" and "threshold"
- Yamaban.
Hello,
On Mon, 02 Mar 2015, Yamaban wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:33, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@...> wrote:
Running SuSE 13.1, and clearly not an expert on this release. I simply want to configure my mouse, a very simple Logitech PS/2 mouse. I want to configure the speed that the cursor moves versus the physical speed of the mouse.
[..]
On command line there are xset and xinput to manipulate the "pointer acceleration" and "threshold"
As an example, I use:
==== xinput --set-prop 'LogiM500' "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 2.0 ====
in my ~/.xinitrc. The xorg.conf section is:
==== Section "InputDevice" Driver "evdev" Identifier "LogiM500" Option "Vendor" "Logitech" Option "Name" "Logitech M500 Wheel Mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Laser_Mouse-event-mouse" Option "Buttons" "9" Option "Resolution" "1600" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 2" EndSection [..] Section "ServerLayout" [..] InputDevice "LogiM500" "CorePointer" [..] EndSection ====
(I hope this is correct, I used to have "Mouse[0]" in both the xorg.conf _and_ the xinput line, and have not restarted X yet. Anyway: have a look at 'xinput list' for what's available under what name[1] ;) and the settings with
$ xinput list-props 'LogiM500'
or however you/Xorg names your mouse ;) I get:
$ xinput list-props 'Mouse[0]' Device 'Mouse[0]': [..] Device Accel Profile (244): 0 Device Accel Constant Deceleration (245): 2.000000 Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (246): 1.000000 Device Accel Velocity Scaling (247): 10.000000 [..]
BTW: that "ButtonMapping" moves "middle button" from the wheel-button to the front-thumb-button, which one can use much more easily and precise than that below the wheel, esp. without moving the wheel...
Run 'Xorg -configure -config /tmp/test_xorg.conf' to get a config from the autodetected stuff, which you can then adjust ;)
Besides having _LONG_ properties with spaces in them is just plain braindead, xinput is nice.
HTH, -dnh
PS: I use that (complete!) XF86Config/xorg.conf basically since 1999. I change Monitors, Mouses, but keep old stuff commented for reference... Heck, at least in backups, I must still have the XF86Configs with those hand-tuned modelines for my CRT...
[1] here, it is
|- Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] | |- Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] | |- Mouse[0] id=6 [slave pointer (2)] | `- MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (technisat-usb2) id=9 [slave pointer (2)] `- Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] |- Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] |- IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] `- AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
and "Mouse[0]" is my Logi M500 ;)
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