mouse motion

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2025-02-22 at 21:21 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> One of the problems of using the mouse to command klipper on jammie
> and noble on arm64 for 3d printers is the outrageous speed of the
> mouse.

Normally that is controlled through Settings -> Mouse & Touchpad ->
Mouse speed...

> Speed is currently 1x in the xfce4 mouse config.
> And still about 5 times faster than needed.

Hum, yes well the mouse settings I mention are for the default window
manager, GNOME I guess. Can you specify fractional speeds to the xfce
settings, or is it pointy-clicky?

The other possibility is that there are two (or more!) settings that
affect each other. Like, hypothetically, 'mouse acceleration' and
'mouse speed'. If the acceleration point is set too low, it might feel
to you as if the mouse is always too fast, so setting the acceleration
point higher might help. I stress this is hypothetical, I don't know
what settings are available to you, I'm just suggesting look further
afield than just the mouse speed specifically. BTW if there actually
*is* an "acceleration" setting, sometimes it's reversed - it's not the
speed beyond which the mouse should accelerate, but instead it's the
amount of acceleration that you want. In that case set it lower, not
higher :-)

Failing all else, smear a thin layer of molasses on a mouse mat and use
that.

Regards, K.

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