Disabling mouse acceleration temporarily?

With older versions of the X server I could disable mouse acceleration temporarily using "xset m 0 0", but as the wiki says it doesn't have the same effect anymore: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mo … celeration
I'd like to reconfigure the exact same behavior as the previous mouse algorithms. Is this possible?
Thank you!

See AccelerationProfile in xorg wiki.
You probably want:
0. classic (the default) similar to old behaviour, but more predictable
E.g. I use:
xinput set-prop Mouse "Device Accel Profile" -1
xinput set-prop Mouse "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 7.0
(I defined "Mouse" in xorg.conf)

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Is there a way to disable mouse acceleration in OSX Yosemite?

i have used my dads iMac and MBP in the past and always noticed how bad the mouse response was in my opinion. Mind you, some people like the way the mouse responds in OSX and will probably have no idea what my issue is. That is mouse acceleration and the lack of option to disable it in the mouse settings panel. Here is a good explanation about what it is, also in the video is a visual example.
"Mouse or cursor acceleration, to put it simply, makes the travel distance of your cursor on the screen reliant of the velocity of your physical mouse movement rather than just the distance that you move your mouse. So making one movement of the same distance at two different speeds will cause two different relative cursor movements, with quick movement causing the cursor to travel a greater distance."
source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16diwK6HWbI
So the thing i want to accomplish, is making the physical mouse movement one-to-one with the cursor speed on the screen. As an example: moving my mouse 10 cm would always make my mouse on the screen go 1000 pixels, no matter how fast i move my mouse.
I've had my mouse set up like that in windows and linux for quite some time now and i hope there is an easy way to set the mouse response like that in OSX as well.
I want to make clear that this isn't just an issue in games where you want to have great mouse precision. I have become really accustomed to this way of mouse response in any type of application. So the problem lies not in any mouse settings of any game/program. The problem lies in how OSX translates physical mouse movement to cursor movement.
Anyway, i ran into this issue about a year ago when i was using my dad's computer. i've had my own windows computer for some time now. An option to disable mouse acceleration in OSX Yosemite might have been implemented properly in the mean time. I have searched this community and found some old posts of people who had this same problem as me, but never read about any fix for it. The main reason i am asking this is because i am considering buying a Macbook.
I'd rather not use any third party software, but if there is any out that that just works and is easy to use, let me know.

Please don't be obnoxious to people like tbirdvet trying to help; nobody here owes you an answer, or anything else for that matter.
Anyway, Yosemite seems to enable mouse acceleration by default. You can disable it to get a constant pixels pointer moves / meters mouse moved ratio by typing this in terminal:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
you'll need to logout and log back in for changes to take effect. To restore the standard behaviour:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling 2
should do the trick.
C.

[SOLVED] Disabling Mouse Acceleration / Mouse unresponsive

Hi,
I play CSGO and need my mouse to be responsive with no mouse acceleration. Everything works find under Ubuntu 15.04 using the old xinput method of disabling mouse acceleration. However under Arch my mouse is really sensitive and unresponsive when making very small movements at slow speed (moving slightly to get a headsot at range in CSGO requires some presision)
I've read the wiki page a coule of times and tried two different configs. Looking at diffs of my Xorg log the configs are getting picked up but seems to do very little. There doesnt appear to be any errors in Xorg log.
I installed the full Xorg group am I missing a component of Xorg or a mouse driver?
My Mouse is Gigabyte M6900
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc … id=3616#ov
Name : xorg-server
Version : 1.17.1-5
uname -a
Linux desktop 4.0.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 18 06:43:19 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
First mouse accelleration config file as described in the wiki
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mouse-acceleration.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Areson USB Device"
MatchIsPointer "yes"
Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
EndSection
The very first example of the wiki shows some settings for disabling mouse accelleration but still no joy
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Areson USB Device"
MatchIsPointer "yes"
Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
Option "AccelerationNumerator" "1"
Option "AccelerationDenominator" "1"
Option "AccelerationThreshold" "0"
EndSection
A Diff of these Xorg log between the two config files
< [ ] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 22 15:53:29 2015
> [ ] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 22 17:45:05 2015
346,347c346,350
< [ ] (**) Areson USB Device: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
< [ ] (**) Areson USB Device: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
> [ ] (**) Option "AccelerationNumerator" "1"
> [ ] (**) Option "AccelerationDenominator" "1"
> [ ] (**) Option "AccelerationThreshold" "0"
> [ ] (**) Areson USB Device: (accel) acceleration factor: 1.000
> [ ] (**) Areson USB Device: (accel) acceleration threshold: 0
egrep -i 'error|fail|firmware' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 112.912] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 114.973] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
Last edited by fixles (2015-05-22 20:34:45)

brebs wrote: Here is the libinput bug report re acceleration - it ain't fully disabling acceleration.
So it doesnt work but its not broken? lol
as for AccelSpeed -1, you're correct that it currently does some deceleration below the threshold. having said that, the pointer accel code isn't finished yet either, e.g. it doesn't do any constant deceleration, so the -1 setting is a bit off anyway.
I can't promise you a timeline or whether this will get fixed in the way you want it to. we're trying to simplify a couple of things, pointer acceleration is one of those, and that means that not every configuration that was previously possible will be possible in the future.
Followed up by a pretty funny response.
Honestly that sounds a bit like "we know what you want better than you know what you want". libinput isn't secretly a Gnome project is it?

Anyone have an xorg mouse acceleration profile that is close to Win7?

Full disclosure I'm using Fedora but have a base install with only X11 and icewm (arch has better wiki). I'm trying to configure everything through the xserver. Right now I'm using the settings that are supposed to disable mouse acceleration completely found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration
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It's better than what it was with no configuration file (evdev defaults?) but I think I would like to tweak it a little. Since I'm most used to Windows mouse acceleration I was wondering if anybody knew of settings close to that I could use?

Well since there are many variables to contend with, I thought I might try asking for some sane defaults first that were comparable to those on Windows. I've tried configuring mouse acceleration before via 3rd party drivers and always have to rely on trial and error which is not very productive. That's why I just decided to disable everything as a baseline.

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Hello all,
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I wonder if there might be a javascript that could be plugged into GreaseMonkey to accomplish the end goal.   This blog and Adobe document refer to the wmode parameter and how to use it to disable HA.
http://niquimerret.com/?p=159
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_1_hardware_acceleration.html
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Hi, LOL at my screen moniker. That's interesting that the FF beta has an Option for that. The only problem, is that I have heard that each browser must UNcheck the H.A. I'm sure you'll find out.
Hope that works at least for FF. Let me know if you have time.
I've been checking out Apple TV and Google TV. Just saved the links and some info, haven't had time to go further. I'd prefer Apple TV over Google tho.
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We are under the Snow & Ice warning, getting it now. Hope I don't lose power! If so, I'll be offline for sure.
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Read this page:
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Firefox 10.0.2 32 bit
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