Mouse Speed and button use

Agileuk · 09-25-2003, 06:18 PM

I have a 5 button mouse (the Microsoft Intellimouse explorer) this is not found by default in Linux, but that is not really a problem, for now I can live without the extra two buttons. The problem is that I cannot find any way to change the speed or acceleration. I was wondering if such a menu existed.

I am using RH9 and currently am running KDE.

Thanks

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Agileuk · 09-25-2003, 06:25 PM

Solved- for those who want to know:

Goto

Control centre> Peripherals>mouse>advanced

Sorry, as you can see, I am just not used to this interface

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Agileuk · 09-25-2003, 06:28 PM

Not solved, there is an acceleration option here, but no speed option?!?!

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Agileuk · 09-26-2003, 04:26 PM

Sorry to bump this, but it still has not been solved?

Is there a patch, or a terminal command that I can execute in order to change this?

Thanks

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ehdwuld · 09-27-2003, 01:32 AM

have you tried
menu>system settings>mouse?

m0rl0ck · 09-27-2003, 01:53 AM

Before you guys go nuts staring holes through menus, try
man xset

Agileuk · 09-27-2003, 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ehdwuld
have you tried
menu>system settings>mouse?

This just comes up with a menu about the type of mouse, no options to change speed or accell here.

As for man xset, this only enables you to change the threshold and accell. What I can do is change the threshold to 1 and then put the accell to where i would like the speed to go.

Thanks guys

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Kiada · 09-27-2003, 06:28 AM

im also looking for the option to increase the sensitivity of my mouse... so yeah, please somebody! lol

Agileuk · 09-27-2003, 01:51 PM

If you could also add an option of how to enable the other buttons that would be great! Thanks

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ehdwuld · 09-27-2003, 02:52 PM

control Center> periphals >mouse ?

Agileuk · 09-27-2003, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ehdwuld
control Center> periphals >mouse ?

Sorry, but I noticed this just after my first post, this has no options to configure the other two buttons, and also only contains the threshold and acc. of the mouse, not speed.

Keep 'em comming guys, thanks!

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tredegar · 09-28-2003, 08:17 AM

"Mouse Sensitivity" - This drove me mad too. Threshold and Accelleration are only only tpart of the configuration.

I had to put this line intoXF86Config-4 in the section Inputdevice:

Option "Resolution" "5000"

and then restart X.

So, my Inputdevice section looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "5000"
EndSection

5000 may not be a suitable value for you, so try 200, 1000, 10000 etc until you find a number that works well for you.

Hope this helps.