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"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that |
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> the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. |
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> Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and |
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> forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per |
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> second). The worst problem caused by this is that the monitor can |
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> wake up at seemingly random times. |
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> [ ... ] |
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> So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion. |
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> Either to shut down mouse motion completely, or to allow it but to |
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> ignore it for the effect considering the computer as idle. I have |
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> performed a quick read of kernel code and of the xorg.conf man page |
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> but I see no clue. |
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> |
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> Anybody knows? |
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Maybe unclutter could do for you... |
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* x11-misc/unclutter |
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gentoo: 8-r1 {:0} |
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installed: 8-r1* {:0} |
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Description: Hides mouse pointer while not in use. |
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Homepage: |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/unclutter-8.README |
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License: public-domain |
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Cheers. |
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<spyderous> kurt needs to allow sudo /usr/bin/nano |
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<seemant> talk to him then :P |
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<spyderous> i tried =P |
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<spyderous> he said, be a man |
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<seemant> HA! |
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