Mouse acceleration

[Jon P. Inghram]

I cannot stand the mouse acceleration that XP provides, turning it off is literally the first thing I do whenever I install XP.

How about everyone else?

[Jammrock]

I don't need a mouse! My mind is one with my computer and it does as I command through my thoughts

Sorry, you opened yourself up to that. No I don't use mouse acceleration.

[lecter]

Low acceleration works well for me...the mouse is a rather big Logitech iFeel one, so I like not having to move it very much.

[Jon P. Inghram]

The "I don't use a mouse" option was for tablet or other obscure input device users. I just got a Wacom Graphire3 tablet this afternoon and have been using it instead of a mouse to get used to the pen.

[Paddy]

No acceleration, but the sensitivity is turned way up.

[dbdg]

Low acceleration, take an age to move across the monitors otherwise.

[Fat Tone]

Ditto - try moving from the left of Monitor 1 to the right of Monitor 3 without it!

[VJ]

I use a Kensington trackball (inappropriatly named Expertmouse 5).
Accelleration is enabled, with extreme fine adjustments (this allows me to
disable accelleration at low speeds, but have it prominently at high
speeds)
As posted before : navigating multiple displays is difficult otherwise.


Jörg

[VJ]

I use a Kensington trackball (inappropriatly named Expertmouse 5).
Accelleration is enabled, with extreme fine adjustments (this allows me to
disable accelleration at low speeds, but have it prominently at high
speeds)
As posted before : navigating multiple displays is difficult otherwise.


Jörg

[dbdg]

Do you have two trackballs VJ

[Nowhere]

Somehow I didn't noticed anything unusual with the mouse when moving from win9x to XP...it just works ok (apparently I use acceleration )

[VJ]

Originally posted by dbdg
Do you have two trackballs VJ

Actually... yes...

But I posted from in Lynx, and somehow (I now see) the post appeared twice...

I mean the driver has 2 fine adjustment settings:
1. accelleration when moving slowly
2. accelleration when moving fast

The former is set to minimal, the latter to much much higher... As a result, there is no accelleration when moving slowly, but a lot of accelleration when moving the same trackball fast.



Jörg

[Dr Mordrid]

Haven't touched the acceleration on my XP rigs. Using a M$ optical mouse.

Dr. Mordrid

[Jon P. Inghram]

With my M$ Wheel Mouse Optical I can leave the standard XP mouse control panel (no IntelliMouse drivers thank you very much ) at the middle sensitivity and get single pixel accuracy and still cross the entire screen in less than half the width of my bog standard "wetsuit" mouse pad, and without even moving my wrist if so desired (not that that's a good thing to do ergonomically.)

I think the problem I have with MS's mouse acceleration is that it's too jumpy, on my Amiga I had a little mouse acceleration utility that had extremely fluid acceleration that was really pleasant to use.

[Ribbit]

I just use the defaults that come with X / Windows. I'm used to them.