Re: tlug: mouse movement (was: humour: Win98 source code)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:

> On a different but slightly related note:
> 
> Anbody know a way I can make the mouse move very *slowly* and smoothly?
> When I want to draw freehand curves in GIMP or some other graphics
> program, I do 'xset m 1 1', but on my desktop machine it's still too
> fast; I can draw curves with the --- whatsisname --- the IBM-style nub 
> thingy on my notebook much more easily than I can with a regular mouse 
> on the desktop ... which is ridiculous.
> 
> 'Course, if I were *serious* about graphics, I'd buy a Wacom artpad or 
> something. Guess I'm only semi-serious ;-)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any tips.

I think it's either:

startx -a 1

or

startx -- -a 1

change 1 to a different value to make it faster, 1 is the slowest.

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