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Article #11847Re: mouse motion scaling factors
From: Jan L. Peterson
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 10:31
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 10:31
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Dave Kemp mentions some problems with faster than normal mouse scaling.
I've had these problems on my Sun-3/260 in OS revisions 3.2, 3.4, 4.0, and
now 4.0.1.
Here are some of the symptoms:
if you edit ~/.defaults and change the mouse scaling factors,
the change does not take effect
if you edit with defaultsedit, the change takes effect
if your machine reboots, the change goes away
if you have mouse scaling factors set to something other than
the default, when you run defaultsedit it not only doesn't
realize it, it also CHANGES YOUR .defaults FILE to the
defaults.
I reported this to sun about a year and a half ago. I actually spoke to
an engineer about this and he said "I can't reproduce it." While I had
him on the phone, I had him change his defaults with defaultsedit and
reboot his machine. Suddenly, he COULD reproduce it. I have not heard
from sun on this problem since.
My workaround, the first time you log in after a reboot, run the program
inputs_from_defaults. Never run defaultsedit after a reboot because it
will wipe out your defaults.
Good luck.
-jan-
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