Re: How do I stop the control-center from messing with my mouse?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Markus Bertheau <twanger bluetwanger de> writes:
> 
> the GNOME2 Mouse Settings do not produce acceptable mouse motion
> threshold and acceleration settings for my mouse. I use an optical USB
> mouse with a screen resolution of 1280x1024. I have
> 	Option	    "Resolution" "1800"
> in the mouse section in my XF86Config. So far I always comment out the
> lines in
> gnome-control-center/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-mouse.c that
> are responsible for that to make my mouse movement not suck.
> 
> Without that action the Mouse is far too slow, and a low acceleration
> threshold makes it kinda difficult to precisely position the mouse
> cursor, while a high acceleration threshold requires me to move the
> mouse 20 cm to get from the left to the right border of the screen.
> Neither is acceptable. If gnome-settings-daemon would not mess with the
> mouse settings, everything would be ok. I tried to reset the appropriate
> GConf values to the schema default (aka "unset key" in gconf-editor) in
> the hope the mouse settings would just not get changed, but that doesn't
> work.
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 

You need to file a report on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ so this gets
fixed.

Havoc