mouse-speed is a bash script to increase or decrease the speed of your mouse and touchpad.
The main usage is to slow down the mouse as a penalty in the RSI-tool typebreak also installed by this package.
typebreak warns you every 10 minutes to focus some far objects. Eye breaks are essential to the typist. These entail simply looking away from the computer screen every so often (every 15 minutes) and focusing on a distant object or picture for about 30 seconds. Constantly looking at a computer screen impedes blinking, which in turn affects the amount of lubricant added to the eye.
decellerate the mouse for 50%:
mouse-speed -d 50
accelerate the mouse for 50%
mouse-speed -a 50
reset mouse speed to 100%
mouse-speed -r
set mouse speed to 30%
mouse-speed -s 30
- Simply copy
mouse-speedandtypebreakinto/usr/bin/and make it executable. - Add typebreak to your startup programs.
Implementation is easy, see rcaelers/workrave#47
In RSIBreak this is especially useful:
you can set this program, to start, when a microbreak starts and with another option to reset to default speed only when a micro-break successfully ends.
if you disable the "skip" button in RSIBreak preferences, then the only solution for you to continue working without taking the break would be to postpone the break, which would not trigger the end-event, that only fires, if the microbreak ends.
options for the start of a "micro-break":
mouse-speed -d 50
Option to for when a "micro-break" ends:
mouse-speed -r
I also created a script that auto detects your touchpad and sets the palm detection to a reasonable value, call this on the console for verbose output with
palm-decection-on -v
copy palm-decection-on to /usr/bin/ and make it executable.
- Add palm-decection-on to your startup programs.
In case you use a touchpad without the string "touchpad" in its identifier string adapt the first few configuration lines:
the variable TOUCHPAD_STRING should contain an unambiguous part of the Identifier string you will get if you enter
xinput --list --short
Ruben Barkow
An ergonomic alternative keyboard-layout for typing with both hands and optional with only one (english and german)
This code is covered by the GNU General Public License 3.