Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, 21:55, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Did you try reducing mouse sensitivity? See man xset.
>
I know about xset, but its man page does not contain the word
"sensitivity".  I have, though, reduced the resolution of the mouse
through the kernel parameter psmouse.resolution=100.
It seems to have solved the problem. To have the mouse in a good
speed, I have increased acceleration from 2 to 4 and decreased
threshold from 4 to 3. This is with a xset mouse 4 3 command that is
called when Xfce starts.

Two comments:
1) xorg.conf does have a "Resolution" option, but setting is has no
effect. I do have to pass the resolution as a kernel parameter.
2) There should be a way to set acceleration and threshold in xorg.conf.

Regards,
    Jorge Peixoto

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