| Summary: | xset man page does not explain continous acceleration (xset m A/B 0) | ||||||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | gsr.bugs <gsr.bugs> | ||||
| Component: | Documentation | Assignee: | Daniel Stone <daniel> | ||||
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> | ||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | unspecified | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||
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Description
gsr.bugs
2005-07-27 05:11:56 UTC
I finally looked at how the man page goes, copied the style and added a new paragraph explaining that 0 is a special case. See patch. It gives a user Also for reference, explanation of system in 2002: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpert&m=101624642005523&w=2 Code that seems to have done the job in the past (around line 955) at least up to 7.1: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c?view=annotate Newer code lacks it, tho: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=blob;h=be3368dff52cfc8620e88650b66b23f5d5649de5;hb=fd91630b73100e9d77ccb492c52807448bc772a5;f=hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c Created attachment 7712 [details] [review] Add mention of threshold=0 being a different formula the code hasn't been removed, it's been generalised: look at acceleratePointer() in dix/getevents.c. this means it'll also work for other DDXes (notably, the KDrive-based ones). Yeah, I already found, but was not sure with the new system (gitweb) if I was seeing the right thing. Anyway, the code looks still doing a pow function, and thus the patch still makes sense. So this patch gets rejected or approved? Based in mails the situation has existed by around 4 years or more, I think it is time to cover the feature in the man page. Also seen there is a bug trying to improve/change acceleration, and if that one gets commited, I hope it includes xset support... and documentation, man page. ;) yeah, as the comment says, it's the same code, just moved over. the patch looks fine to me; i'll commit it some time when it's not 4am on friday morning, thanks. the acceleration patch does not include xset support, as that would be a protocol violation; you'd need to use an xi control. but that should definitely be encouraged, you're right ... Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future. Any resolution? The bug has been open for near two years, got a patch months ago and the thing is just about improving documentation, nothing that would cause crashes by changing code. Sorry to be a pest, but for such silly thing (just doc update), and something that could give Xorg a good PR, maybe someone else could commit it. Many people complain X11 has poor mouse handling, but the code is there, just a small number of people know about it. No docs team around? pushed to master Thanks a lot. I hope now it will be easier to convince people X can have smooth mouse behaviour. :) |
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