[OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

[Harry Putnam]

Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:35:41AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> 
>> Summary: mouse control is really touchy... trying to acquire the corner
>> of an open window like an xterm, ff  etc takes seconds to accomplish.
>> The cursor turning to a corner looking icon that allows to resize
>> jitters on and off so bad it can take a lot of effort just to resize.
>
> I've had the same problem on various desktops.  The only thing that
> worked for me on Solaris 11.3 with Gnome and HAL was to do it through
> HAL.  There's some information in
> /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi and also on the web.
>
> You should find an empty directory /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user .
> Create a file 10-x11-input.fdi in that directory to reduce the mouse
> sensitivity.  You have to restart HAL or log out and log in again to
> activate the change.  I'll attach the file I used.  I don't know if it
> will work on other desktops.

Thanks for your input... I found the the things you mentioned.

The mouse seems pretty sluggish now and still pretty jumpy too but it
is somewhat better... probably about half as difficult to select the
corner of an application window as it was before inserting your
file... so thanks very much.