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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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Setting asymmetric correspondence between screen and mouse "area"

Posted 04-28-2016 at 07:57 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 04-28-2016 at 08:44 AM by the dsc
Tags ergonomy, mouse
Like the common acceleration feature, but asymmetric. So you can reach the ends of the screen with whatever range of motion "feels right", even if it's actually "wrong".

You basically misappropriate this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1008975224

(Thanks to whomever came up with it!)

Perhaps drawing two rectangles one inside the other may help...
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Mapping the tablet to monitor with the aid of an inkscape, plus fine-grained mouse accuracy

Posted 03-29-2016 at 06:05 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 03-29-2016 at 06:10 PM by the dsc
Tags mouse, tablet, wacom
I'm speaking of the wacom/genius/aiptek "drawing/writing" kind of tablets, not the "big smartphone", mini-PC-embedded-with-touchscreen type, even though cintiqs and the like blur the distinction a bit.

Without a GUI to actually map the correspondence between the tablet and monitor, one method is to first create an image that is just two rectangles: one representing the full area of your tablet, and another rectangle to the proportion you want to use of the tablet...
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