Understanding The X.Org Server's Complex Pointer Acceleration Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Understanding The X.Org Server's Complex Pointer Acceleration Code

While Peter Hutterer has been involved with the X.Org Server's input code and related projects for the past decade now and has spearheaded the projects around Multi Pointer X, X Input 2, and the Wayland/Xorg-using Libinput libraries, he's still had a tough time grasping the X.Org Server's pointer acceleration code...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xorg-Server-Pointer-Accel

[zeehio]

For those of you distracted like me, there is a Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4:
- http://who-t.blogspot.com.es/2018/05...sis-part2.html
- http://who-t.blogspot.com.es/2018/05...sis-part3.html
- http://who-t.blogspot.com.es/2018/05...sis-part4.html

[dfx.]

The only thing you need to understand about pointer acceleration is that it shouldn't fucking exists ! And it sure as hell shouldn't be enabled by default.

[andrebrait]

The only thing you need to understand about pointer acceleration is that it shouldn't fucking exists ! And it sure as hell shouldn't be enabled by default.

Touchpads are extremely bad without it. It has its usages. No everyone uses a mouse.

When I'm using a mouse I prefer no acceleration but using a touchpad without it is just horrible.

[M@GOid]

Touchpads are extremely bad without it. It has its usages. No everyone uses a mouse.

When I'm using a mouse I prefer no acceleration but using a touchpad without it is just horrible.

I don't like to do multiple movements to move a pointer across the screen, so with me is acceleration all the time, mouse or touchpad.

[Grinch]

I don't like to do multiple movements to move a pointer across the screen, so with me is acceleration all the time, mouse or touchpad.

Same here, my threshold is being able to comfortably move the pointer diagonally from a top corner to a bottom corner of the screen with my hand resting at the same place. This is something I need mouse pointer acceleration for, since the defaults are inadequate.

[M@GOid]

Same here, my threshold is being able to comfortably move the pointer diagonally from a top corner to a bottom corner of the screen with my hand resting at the same place. This is something I need mouse pointer acceleration for, since the defaults are inadequate.

Me too. I know some mouses have high DPI so you don't really need acceleration, but the common office mouse do.

[tajjada]

I am the opposite. I like moving my arm a lot. I move my mouse with my whole arm instead of just the wrist. I have a big mousepad.

I hate mouse acceleration. Always off.

Having consistent, precise and predictable movement for my mouse is far more important to me than being able to fling back and forth quickly between corners of my screen.

It frustrates me that most DE mouse settings GUIs don't support properly turning it off, so I have to write xorg.conf files to force it off.

[M@yeulC]

Have you tried to use two external screens with a laptop TouchPad? Sometimes acceleration really is necessary if you want something usable.

Maybe DEs could configure the default based on screen resolution, though

[cj.wijtmans]

the mouse is increasingly becoming something that should be replaced one day. its inefficient and a headache to implement properly. How deos your computer know how big your mouse pad area is ? how you move your wrist/arm? it doesnt.