From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1SAe-0000Hq-Rr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 919F0E01A7; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C36E01A7 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so712686eyk.10 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:55:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=GNjK/HXMsbqdL3+R6Tau4TmnyFXXXPcFbOPOyl6aTEc=; b=YPzthORmdrU95ZUnQ8nBQ0QMzVT1uFWzYc7umZXW+ZWhXDrlrEaNB9if7Uc2vGgd7c p6LSdfHjoUx7OAdp0srJkboj4xah1Ak8Z0byS/RdUep/hA6DwIbQDSV0U9LGHUJZGxx4 /pNa+qRoIi0G4Ze8ozooS2iqEKcVL0RxGbSc4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=oFykAS/BeeKDImxEwUk2WXtS00/3L4v2y05G5dzCNpckNhyEyeg/v/+kDF5ydvjefa DxtK9/q/1J2l28irEqQaWcVW2haGGN2+E2zARxST994+t9h7gn+Mj9odqCdrirfRt8TC VhUHJfFEKREy6TIlfeV6InvjMz1CW5PcVoM8w= Received: by 10.210.66.1 with SMTP id o1mr2412149eba.193.1226782506230; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.37.7 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:55:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811151255k8e40d83n268f57fbf7516ae3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:55:06 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 01608f7d512ce3d0 X-Archives-Salt: 8ebcb48c-72d3-424c-9ada-1397ee4be6c1 X-Archives-Hash: ac2d5fb62f4d67a1169dec37aa75a3f5 Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per second). The worst problem caused by this is that the monitor can wake up at seemingly random times. One solution would be to switch off the monitor every time I won't use it for a few minutes, but (AFAIK) this would waste energy and reduce lifetime. I want the DPMS modes of standby, suspend, off. Another solution would be to buy another mouse, but this would cost money and would not teach me the solution (this problem can manifest again in the future, with this or another computer). So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion. Either to shut down mouse motion completely, or to allow it but to ignore it for the effect considering the computer as idle. I have performed a quick read of kernel code and of the xorg.conf man page but I see no clue. Anybody knows? -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds