[arch-general] Bring back the old X11 values

[Chris Moline]

Why not just tinker around using xset and xinput? Once you have the values
you like you can add the xset/xinput commands to your .xinitrc or edit the
x11 configuration file.


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Dimitris Zervas <dzervas at dzervas.gr> wrote:

> On June 13, 2014 8:37:59 PM EEST, Bigby James <bigby.james at crepcran.com>
> wrote:
> >On 06/13, Dimitris Zervas wrote:
> >>
> >> Not helping... :/
> >>
> >
> >The new mouse movement and keyboard repeat speeds aren't to your taste.
> >You
> >want the old ones back. Questions:
> >
> >1) Do you know what the old settings were? Kind of moot to ask for help
> >and then
> >give such a vacuous response when help is offered, if you don't know
> >what the
> >   settings are that have actually changed.
> >
> >2) Similarly, what's "not helping?" That response suggests that you
> >know what
> >you're looking for, and couldn't find it on those wiki pages. Yet if
> >you know
> >what you're looking for, you should already have an idea where to look
> >for it...
> >
> >3) If you're unsure of what the necessary settings actually are, how
> >are you
> >testing the current ones vs. the previous ones? No offense, but are you
> >sure you
> >   aren't imagining this?
> >
> >Folks need more to go on than this. Is the key repeat speed too fast?
> >Too slow?
> >Do you use a custom keymap? I'm limiting my questions to the keyboard,
> >because
> >changing mouse speed and sensitivity is usually trivial.
>
> Yea, you're right.
> As for the links provided I meant "The links are not help, 'cause I don't
> know the old values". Sorry for the misunderstanding.
>
> The mouse is too slow (and sometimes, WAY too slow, if I make a small
> movement).
> The key repeat is also slow.
>
> I am asking for the old values of the mouse sensitivity/acceleration/etc
> and key repeat. Just how they were before the update.
>
> I am not "imagining" (I thought of it too in the first place), because I
> get frustrated times that I really am focused on other things (ex. when
> copy/pasting code from one monitor to another)
>
> Thank you.
>