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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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One solution would be to switch off the monitor every time I won't use |
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it for a few minutes, but (AFAIK) this would waste energy and reduce |
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lifetime. I want the DPMS modes of standby, suspend, off. |
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Another solution would be to buy another mouse, but this would cost |
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money and would not teach me the solution (this problem can manifest |
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again in the future, with this or another computer). |
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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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Anybody knows? |
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