#4063 NORM Never A: Test out different acceleration options for the mousepad with xset

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#4063: Test out different acceleration options for the mousepad with xset
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 Reporter:  HoboPrimate  |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro       |     Version:                
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0             
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 I wonder if #4032 could happen less frequently if the normal speed of the
 mousepad was increased, or the acceleration factor was increased.

 By having it go faster, kids will be able to more easily travel across the
 screen, and not have so much an instinctive urge to press strongly on the
 touchpad to make the seemingly slow cursor move. The screen size is also
 smaller than typical screens, so it doesn't make sense to use the same
 defaults as those laptops with 3x screen size.

 The default currently used is the mouse speed with a factor of 2, when a 4
 pixel threshold is travelled in a short time. My kubuntu default is 2 2.
 To just increase the mouse speed, with no acceleration, you would choose 1
 for the pixel threshold.

 From my tests the last weeks, "xset m 3 4" seems to be a option.

 This is configured by running "xset m 3 4". "xset q" shows all xset
 options, and "xset m default" reverts it to the default specified in
 ~/.xinitrc.

 It would be interesting to test this (and others) speed with kids, but be
 aware that it will takes a bit to get used to it after being familiar with
 the default. After some observations and feedback, it could better be
 fine-tuned. For example, you can also use more decimal values for, "3.5"
 would be represented as "7/2" .

 You cannot increase too much the acceleration, because then the behaviour
 of the mouse feels like it has a turbo toggle. Because of this, it is
 really not currently possible to use xset to go have a behaviour in which
 you are able to move the cursor to the corners with a quick finger
 movement, and keep the cursor behave "decently".

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4063>
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