how to reduce mouse sensitivity

[Member stephenbbb]

i am trying to resize windows by dragging and it is extremely hard to get the mouse to give me the expansion handle. even with a real mouse (not the pad) it is very difficult. there should be a setting to fix that.
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S.

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[Member Xecure]

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It depends on which kernel version and driver is managing the mouse input, but there is a general way to regulate sensitivity with the Mouse COnfiguration app in antiX.
Control Centre > Hardware > Mouse Configuration.
See if reducing Mouse acceleration helps. After applying the changes, keep testing different multipliers until you find one that works better. Once you are happy with the change, enable the “Enable at startup” so that the changes take effect on next reboot.

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[Moderator BobC]

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Something that might help if you are using IceWM. Choose an IceWM theme designed to make it easy using a trackpad.

Try one of the antiX-Magic-??????? themes. I doubled or tripled the corner grabbing area when I built them. I had the same problem.

[Member DaveW]

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If the issue relates to window resizing only, try this:
Position the cursor near the window edge, then press and hold ‘Alt + Right click’ as you move the cursor.

[Moderator BobC]

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“press and hold ‘Alt + Right click’ as you move the cursor”

I really had to concentrate, but was able to do it!

Because I have to right click, I need to use my right hand to press the right Alt key and Right click, and then move my left index finger on the trackpad. That is not easy to do because I usually use my right hand to move the trackpad pointer or mous press and hold ‘Alt + Right click’ as you move the cursor.

I found that the setting for which key(s) and button control this are adjustable from the menu from Settings, Preferences, KeyWin, MouseWinSize, then Save settings afterwards.

[Member stephenbbb]

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@BobC
how do i check what manager I use?I think I am using Icewm, but I do not see the theme you mention. available themes start with BlueDay-Large and finish with Truth ice-1.0-small
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S.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by stephenbbb.

[Moderator BobC]

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The conky shows which desktop you are running. It looks like it’s one of the IceWM ones. Look in the themes list under A for the antiX-Magic themes and try one of those.

[Moderator BobC]

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The theme should be included in antiX 21,. You can add it to older antiX versions. The files can be downloaded from this thread https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/new-theme-for-antix-icewm/page/4/#post-49156

[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello everybody.

I have another question related to double clicking.

How can we reduce or increase the speed of mouse double click sensitivity?

Grateful.

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Olá a todos.

Eu tenho uma outra dúvida relacionada ao duplo clique.

Como podemos reduzir ou aumentar a velocidade da sensibilidade do duplo clique do rato?

Grato.

[Moderator BobC]

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Marcelo,

# to change double click timeout to 180, add this to your startup. You can test it without the & from a terminal until it is set the way you like it
synclient MaxDoubleTapTime = 180 &

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Possible resources:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33519/how-to-make-x-less-sensitive-when-right-clicking

Our “brother” distribution has several comments in their forum @:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=48844

Perhaps someone who is helpful can provide simple, reproducible steps that new users and beginners will be able to use.

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Brian Masinick

[Moderator BobC]

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Stephen, Here is what my personal themes folder looks like. The subfolders off ~/.icewm/themes you see are the themes that I added.

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[Member stephenbbb]

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I have antix 19.3 and there is no themes folder under ~/.icewm

$ ls ~/.icewm
keys               menu-papirus  startup               toolbar-papirus
menu               personal      theme                 winoptions
menu-applications  personal~     toolbar
menu-numix-bevel   preferences   toolbar-numix-bevel
menu-numix-square  preferences~  toolbar-numix-square

should I create the folder and extract the zip in it? is there anything else I need to do?
thanks
SB

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