mouse(1)

NAME
     mouse - panel for setting mouse acceleration, mapping, click speed

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/mouse

DESCRIPTION
     mouse allows the user to modify mouse acceleration, mapping (left- or
     right-handed), and click speed (delay between clicks in a double-click).

     The user can launch this panel from the toolchest (Desktop > Customize >
     Mouse) or at a Unix shell command line.  Like most other customization
     panels, the mouse panel has the ``runonce'' feature, meaning only one
     instance of the application will run at one time.  Attempting to launch
     the application a second time will have the effect of deiconifying the
     application window or popping it to the top on the current desk.

     For mouse acceleration, the Finer Control button allows the user to
     change acceleration and threshold sliders independently.  The
     acceleration slider controls how many times faster the mouse pointer will
     travel when it moves more than some number of pixels in a short time; the
     threshold slider controls that number of pixels.

     If both the acceleration and threshold sliders are set all the way to the
     right, then the mouse pointer will travel far across the screen when
     moved just slightly.  If both the acceleration and threshold sliders are
     set all the way to the left, then the mouse pointer will travel only a
     few pixels when moved, and the user will need to move the mouse over many
     pixels to obtain that small shift in the pointer's position.  If the
     acceleration is zero, then the mouse pointer will always move the same
     distance across the screen, no matter how fast or slowly the user flicks
     the mouse.

     The acceleration and threshold values corresponding to each of the radio
     buttons have been modified between IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.2.  The IRIX 6.2
     mouse panel supports a wider variety of mouse hardware, including the new
     Logitech mouse provided with SGI's Impact platform.

     For more information about the entire IRIX Interactive Desktop
     environment and about the XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable, see
     the IID(1) man page.


FILES
     $HOME/.Sgiresources
     $HOME/.desktop-<hostname>/panelsession


     The mouse panel does not read from any files.  Most user settings are
     changed into xset commands and written to the file $HOME/.desktop-
     <hostname>/panelsession. The commands stored in this file are executed by
     /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession.dt at the start of the user's session.  Because
     the double-click speed setting is an Xt resource, it is saved in
     $HOME/.Sgiresources, which is treated like a .Xdefaults file.

     The .Sgiresources file is not intended to be edited directly by end
     users.  If, for example, the user edits the file and makes the
     *multiClickTime resource too small (smaller than 90), then after logging
     out and logging back in the user may be unable to double-click.  If this
     happens, launching Desktop > Customize > Mouse on the toolchest and
     selecting the Slow radio button under Click Speed should make the mouse
     more responsive.


SEE ALSO
     xset(1), IID(1)