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* Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion
  @ 2008-11-16 12:14 99% ` Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
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From: Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila @ 2008-11-16 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw
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"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> 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?

Maybe unclutter could do for you...

* x11-misc/unclutter
    gentoo:                  8-r1 {:0} 
    installed:               8-r1* {:0} 
    Description:             Hides mouse pointer while not in use.
    Homepage:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README
    License:                 public-domain

Cheers.
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<spyderous> kurt needs to allow sudo /usr/bin/nano
<seemant> talk to him then :P
<spyderous> i tried =P
<spyderous> he said, be a man
<seemant> HA!
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