Re: About cursor accelerate in X Window
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:46:26 UTC
Thank you, I installed xinput (Yes, I just installed the dependencies required by KDE, that means only Xserver), and after configured DISPLAY environment variable, xinput reported “No protocol specified” and “Unable to connect to X server”, what’s wrong? > >> >> Hello, everyone. I have a laptop with an Alps PS/2 touchpad. >> ... >> I set the cursor speed to the maximum in the Settings, >> is there any other way to accelerate this? > In the olden days, we used to make X[org] use FreeBSD's /dev/moused > which has a subtle but vast sea of configurability. I'm going to > assume it's deprecated, because anything that works well is by now. > > Atop that, I have been using xset for more than 20 years: > xset m 404/19 5 > (xset m multiplier/divisor threshold) > "/divisor" is optional, where "xset m 4/2 1" would be synonymous > with "xset m 2 1" > q.v. xset(1) > Without reading the source, I would assume it can take fairly large numbers. You can open a terminal emulator and play around with various inputs to make you happy. Happiness may not actually > result, but that shouldn't stop you from trying. Then, regardless > of how happy you really are, you can add it to your .xinitrc or > something similar. > > xinput(1) also seems to be able to manipulate speed and > acceleration at a device level. I have never used it. > > Cheers!