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I have this problem with my pc too. I have a razer copperhead, so its |
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not a cheap/crappy mouse problem for me. Best *quick* solution I found |
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was to turn the mouse over when I'm not using it. |
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Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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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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