Mouse Speed Question

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Jarret R wrote:
> 
>> Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I am working on adding
>> support for changing mouse speeds in Syllable
>> (http://syllable.sourceforge.net/). I was wondering where I should start
>> looking, is the speed set in the mouse driver or in KDE somewhere? If 
>> it is
>> in KDE, can you point me to where I should start?
> 
> 
> I think that you are talking about mouse *resolution* and AFAIK, it is 
> an X11 issue.
> 
> However, it appears that KDE can configure this because there is a way 
> to set this in the Control Center.  This would suggest that you could 
> use DCOP to do it.
> 
> However, the Control Center module does NOT change the resolution which 
> governs how much the pointer moves on the screen when you move the mouse 
> a fixed distance.
> 
> So AFAIK, you need to change this with X11/XFree86.
> 
> Sorry that I can't be more help.

A little more here:

In the control center, you can set the mouse speed as 1X, 2X, 3X, etc. 
  But this is probably still set as a multiple of what is selected in 
the XF86Config file (or the default).

--
JRT

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