On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:22:20 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> I like icewm, too, and will be trying the others you mention just in
> case I'm missing something I'm not yet aware of.
>
> I tried lxde and didn't like it -- somehow the mouse became just
> slightly jerky and slightly unresponsive.


LXDE (and maybe Openbox too) is *famous* for having a slow mouse. I'm
talking about on bare metal: Not sure about VM. All other things being
equal, if you switch to another window manager, the mouse is much
faster. By faster I mean 1cm of mouse travel on the mousepad produces
twice as much travel of the pointer on the screen as it did with LXDE.

The cure I've found is:

1) Use a mousepad.
2) Clean your mousepad frequently.
3) Use a Blue Trace mouse
    http://www.walmart.com/ip/Blackweb-BlueTrace-Weighted-Mouse-Red/44459955

The cure is ABSOLUTELY NOT accelleration: That leads to golf game
mousing.

SteveT

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