GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 94208
Mouse control panel should configure smooth acceleration, not the threshold thing
Last modified: 2009-09-08 14:58:41 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74268 for an example complaint, I agree the current way is bad. See the thread starting here for how to fix it: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-March/016295.html We should be able to have a single slider in the mouse capplet for "acceleration" without the threshold thing.
See also bug 93445
Grumble. That archived list is gone, Havoc. Do you have it locally?
This is a dup of #93445. BTW somebody has the list archive or a pointer on what to do to fix that ? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93445 ***
archive.org has it: http://web.archive.org/web/20020829044146/http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-March/016295.html >Does anyone know of any programs, patches, drivers, etc. that allow for >a better mouse cursor acceleration than what X does? > >The current method of multiplying the mouse's velocity by a constant >whenever the motion exceeds a certain threshold isn't as nice and usable >as the extremely smooth polynomial, exponential, etc. acceleration >mechanisms that have been the standard in all the other modern windowing >systems (windows, macos, etc.). > >Alternatively, does anyone know why the X mouse acceleration system >sucks so much? :) The XFree86 mouse acceleration code has been using a different algorithm from this (a smooth one) for a few years when the threshold is set to 0. The traditional algorithm is still used when the threshold is non-zero. If you have a better alternative, feel free to submit a patch that implements it.