Hyperactive mouse

[hazel]

Lately my optical mouse has been misbehaving. Clicks seem to be auto-repeated so that one click behaves like two or three. At first I thought it was just a dirty mouse, so I cleaned it carefully as described in a HOWTO that I googled. That didn't solve the problem.

Then I noticed that this doesn't seem to occur in Debian, only in Crux. This now makes me think it's X that is causing the problem, not my mouse. On Debian Wheezy I have xorg-server 1.7.7 but it's 1.10.0 on Crux 2.7. Has anyone else had this problem with a recent xorg?

In desktop environments like gnome you can configure the mouse ad lib but I am using a simple window manager ( openbox). The xset utility lets you change the acceleration of your mouse but not the click parameters. So how do I get my mouse to calm down?

[Dookus]

Lately my optical mouse has been misbehaving. Clicks seem to be auto-repeated so that one click behaves like two or three. At first I thought it was just a dirty mouse, so I cleaned it carefully as described in a HOWTO that I googled. That didn't solve the problem.

Then I noticed that this doesn't seem to occur in Debian, only in Crux. This now makes me think it's X that is causing the problem, not my mouse. On Debian Wheezy I have xorg-server 1.7.7 but it's 1.10.0 on Crux 2.7. Has anyone else had this problem with a recent xorg?

In desktop environments like gnome you can configure the mouse ad lib but I am using a simple window manager ( openbox). The xset utility lets you change the acceleration of your mouse but not the click parameters. So how do I get my mouse to calm down?

First thing to try is another mouse, borrow one, buy a cheap one or a spare and see if it behaves the same
Good luck.

[A. K. Kapoor]

I have the same problem of hyperactive optical mouse.

[Dookus]

I have the same problem of hyperactive optical mouse.

What do your your

/etc/X11/xorg.conf... entries look like.


Post them here.

[fanderal]

Mouse balm: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...eleration_in_X

[hazel]

What do your your /etc/X11/xorg.conf... entries look like?

Well, the mouse section of mine looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

As you can see, I'm still using the old xf86 drivers. Perhaps I should switch to evdev.