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Topic: Mouse Speed, How to increase Mouse Speed

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mowestusa

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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,18:30

I followed the advise to increase mouse speed with:

xset m 7 10 &

It seems to work, but it is a little jumpy on my Toshiba Laptop. I was wondering how one sets this setting permentantly so
I don't have to do a xterm setting every time I enter? I've done a back up and restore at boot up from the LiveCD.

Also keyboard cursur speed could use some speeding up as well. How do you do that and save it?

Is MyDSL down because I can get it to come up, and I have .0.8.0?

ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,19:55

Add your line ...
" xset m 7 10 & "
to your .xinitrc file ..

Place it near the enhance line.
Make sure the line " fluxbox " stays the last line ..

Then it should follow your backup/restore features..

73
ke4nt

mowestusa

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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,16:31

Thanks ke4nt1.

I edited that file using nano for the first time. That was a new experience to use a text editor in terminal, a growing experience for me as a Linux newbie. It worked great.

Now if I could ask another question on mice. I have a USB Microsoft Optical mouse, it is their cheap version. I would like to be able to use that when it is plugged into my laptop. When I have it connected DSL sees it, identifies it, but only the touchpad on my Tosiba Satellite is able to be used as the pointer. Anyway to get that to work and to save the settings?

Also could you point me to a post that describes in detail how to add start up programs or documents to the .xinitrc file? I finally took out the "Getting Started" because I had that pat.

Thanks again for your help. I almost moved away from DSL to another live distro, but I don't find any that work so seemlessly with a flash drive and offers an easy option to save settings.

mowestusa

ke4nt1

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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,17:41

New experiences are good..
I run more distros than simply DSL, for other things I like to do..
So, no reason not to have both..

I also have an old MS optical mouse, USB..
Since the autodetect is picking up on them both,
Have you tried starting up wth xsetup in your boottime options?
Then you can manually choose the USB mouse..

or

exit X after a bootup ( ctrl-alt-bksp ) from the desktop
type xsetup.sh on the terminal line
Run thru the setup, selecting USB for mouse,
When your back at the prompt, type "startx"

As long as you have the line "home/dsl/.xserverrc" in your
filetool.lst, then your backup/restore will preserve the setting .

73
ke4nt

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,01:00

This is not really important, but I thought I'd mention that applications such as xset, which perform an action and then quit, do not require an ampersand (&) after them. It's only needed for apps which either do not quit automatically, or ones that may take a little while to complete their task.

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