Well it is time for a summary regarding my question to the net
about mouse accelleration and open windows on a Sun 3/60.
Many thanks to the people who replied.
BTW: I sent this the other day to requests by accident. Since it has not
shown up in this discussion group I am now sending correctly,
I hope ;-)
My original question:
>>Does anybody have a suggestion on how to control the speed of the
>>arrow relative to the speed of the mouse in openwin?
>>
>>We have one system (a 3/60) that is a beast to get the arrow lined up
>>on one character for the purpose of cut and paste.
>>Looks like mouse acceleration needs tweeking.
Most people pointed me to the xset command. I tried it out without
much success. Apparently it is expected to work in OW3.
Good to know responses when we go to OPENWINDOW 3 from:
Stephen Malowany malowany@cenparmi.concordia.ca
Peter Shipley uunet!tfs.COM!shipley
Kevin W. Thomas uunet!nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu!kwthomas
Gordon C. Galligher uunet!sbcoc.com!gorpong
Michael Meyers michael.meyers@Corp.Sun.Com
Robert Williams spaceman@mitre.org
Jonathan Corbet corbet@stout.atd.ucar.edu
Doug Becker doug@nmri.ge.com
Right on responses for OW2 from:
John R. Kilheffer amp19263@garfield.amp.com
Greg Earle uunet!poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV!earle
Greg's was most explanatory so I included it here.
Basically he said, use the old editdefaults command that was used
in Sunview and then run input_from_defaults when starting openwin.
>From uunet!poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV!earle Sun May 10 02:36:04 1992
>Return-Path: <uunet!poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV!earle>
>Date: Sun, 10 May 92 01:21:09 PDT
>From: uunet!poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV!earle (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
>To: derek@Nexus.CA
>Subject: Re: Mouse parameters in OpenWindows
>Newsgroups: jpl.mail.sun-managers
>In-Reply-To: <m0liSLz-000GXiC@nexus.ca>
>Organization: Sun Microsystems - JPL on-site Software Support
>Status: RO
>
>
>In OpenWindows 3.0 and 3.0.1, you can use the conventional X command "xset" to
>do this; e.g. "xset m 5 4" means "go 5 times as fast when moved more than 4
>pixels away in a timeslice".
>
>In OpenWindows 2.0, this did not work (you mentioned you have a Sun-3/60).
>To change mouse acceleration in OW 2.0, you need to use the SunView defaults
>mechanisms. Read the manual pages input_from_defaults(1) and defaultsedit(1)
>for information regarding how to edit the defaults, and what input_from_defaults
>does. You can bring up the SunView "defaultsedit" program under OpenWindows,
>and go to the "Inputs" section. The tail end of /usr/lib/defaults/Inputs.d
>will show you the parameters to alter (/Input/Jitter_filter, and all of the
>/Input/*_ceiling values - 1st_ceiling, 2nd_ceiling, etc.) in "defaultsedit".
>
>Then you merely need to ensure that "input_from_defaults" gets run
>as part of your OpenWindows startup sequence somewhere.
>
> - Greg Earle
> Sun Microsystems
Thanks again to everybody who responded.
Regards,
Derek Mallard
derek@nexus.ca
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