Hello:

For a remote control system (Avocent DSR-based system) I need to turn off the mouse acceleration on all servers. Generally this has been easy but Linux has proven to be harder than I thought.

I modify the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to include the "xset m 0" as the last item prior to spawning the window manager. Generally this works, but for some versions of GNOME it appears that the system default acceleration is reset when the window manager starts.

For me the best solution appears to set the XFree86 mouse acceleration default from 2 to 0. More specifically, how do I modify the system so that the command "xset m default" will set the acceleration to 0 and not 2?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sean Dickman

For Gnome, in Mouse Preferences, set the acceleration bar to the middle (ie, slow is not 0, the middle appears to be). It solves the tracking problem with the Avocent (or Dell) KVM. Still looking for the global default too!