[EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and?click buttons?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:56:33PM +0000, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:13:01 Dirk wrote:
> > Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to
> > interfere with your games, yet.
> >
> > Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote:
> > >> People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons or
> > >> move windows are not bright enough to realize the absence of
> > >> acceleration anyways.
> > >
> > > Sorry for not being bright enough for you, but I do enjoy acceleration.
> > >
> > > 	Xav
> 
> a) you probably need to disable the acceleration in whatever preferences utility 
> your window manager / desktop environment provide
> 
> b) guys, there *are* cases where a hi-res mouse pretty much obviates "pointer 
> acceleration" and mocking someone for wanting to turn it off is ... puerile.
> 
> In fact, what's probably needed is the ability to *decelerate* the thing when 
> you want to position something accurately ... :)

see AdaptiveDeceleration (or ConstantDeceleration), added in server 1.6
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration

Cheers,
  Peter