Speed control on multiple pointers

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:46:48PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Is there a good way to control the speed on multiple pointer devices?
> I have both a mouse and a trackpoint keyboard, and they have very
> different scales for speed.  My TrackPoint settings make my mouse way
> too fast.
> 
> I'm currently using /dev/input/mice with Linux 2.6.  I suspect I
> probably need to break out the configuration into two pointers.
> However, I don't see any options to xset that would let me configure
> them indepenedently.

You'll definitely need to split them up.

I am not sure if acceleration settings are global, or per device,
however I believe them to be per device.

If that is the case you'll probably have to do some dancing with
xsetpointer to change the core pointer, then set it for the second
device, then possibly change it back.

Ugly, but effective.

A brief look at the code does indeed show that it's per pointer.

Sometime soon someone needs to write a new tool that can adjust the
settings on arbitrary input devices, not just the core devices.

As far as I can tell, the functions for doing so are all in X lib, but
nobody has really written a program to take advantage of them.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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