FVWM Mouse Speed

How to alter the speed of the mouse in fvwm. In the example given the mouse speed was so fast it was taking several attempts to click on anything.

You can query the mouse speed with xset -q, e.g. to just query the pointer settings run:

  xset -q | egrep -A1 'Pointer'

which will probably display something like:

  Pointer Control:
    acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4

You can change the speed by altering the values of how far the pointer moves per unit time. (in fact we are changing the acceleration rate but don't worry too much just yet).

The default is probably 2/1 so lowering it will make the mouse move slower, e.g.

  xset m 3/2

is a bit slower (it take a rational number)...

  xset m 1/1
  xset m 1/2

will be even slower.

As mentioned above this is in fact altering the acceleration settings so this might not be quite what you want if the acceleration features are useful to you...