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

[Allan Arguelles <allan@arguelles.com.ph>]

I have this problem with my pc too. I have a razer copperhead, so its
not a cheap/crappy mouse problem for me. Best *quick* solution I found
was to turn the mouse over when I'm not using it.

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> 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?
>
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