[openbox] xinput stopped working

Das dasfox at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 18:40:34 EDT 2013


Welcome to the world of Arch, you do realize Arch runs on the Bleeding
Edge...

While it's not a bad distro, I won't flame it out, watch out, things break
all the time on updates, so if you're into REAL stability, then I'd steer
clear...



On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:

> Jamie Macdonald wrote:
>
>   I didn't really understand your symptoms, my problem was probably
>   unrelated, but reinstalling is usually not a bad idea.
>
>   Is everything (xset, xinput, xbindkeys) being reset on suspend/resume?
>
> No, only xinput. I'm only setting one property:
>
> xinput --set-prop 'Microsoft  Compact Optical Mouse 500' 'Device Accel
> Velocity Scaling' 1.75
>
> But that one property is getting reset to the default value of 10
> periodically. I have not yet figured out any pattern to the resets. I
> thought it was suspend/resume, but I've had it happen now without a
> suspend. It's not at regular intervals either.
>
> The culprit must be xf86-evdev-input. Maybe I can compare it somehow with
> the previous version.
>
> I think my next move will be to replace the xinput executable with a script
> that logs who ran it.
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