Default mouse acceleration

[Bernhard Walle]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 at 10:16 (+0200), Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 09:58, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 at 14:34 (-0700), Ric wrote:
> > I don't like it. It's too "quick" in my opinion. And I don't think that
> > it is a good idea for a desktop to have another mouse acceleration by
> > default than X11 (and other desktops). The first thing I did after
> > starting xfce the first time was to set the mouse acceleration right!
> 
> The values are those from xset, so it should be the same as the default
> X11 values.

No, at least not here. I've written a small C program which uses 
XGetPointerControl() to find out the values.

Starting xfce4 with no mouse.xml gives me

        Accel: 9, Denom: 3, Threshold: 6

After executing "xset m default" it is

        Accel: 2, Denom: 1, Threshold: 4

If I'm not completely wrong in Mathematics, 9/3 = 3 is not the same as
2/1 = 2, so 6/3 would be the right value. There's even another value for
the Threshold.

If it's not the same on every X server, the sentence 

        "Setting a value to -1 restores the default."

in the X11 manual page would help to get the right default behaviour.


Regards,
Bernhard

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