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Mouse Cursor Update

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While Jimmac’s mouse cursor has a few different names in various distros odds are you are using it. It’s been updated check it out.

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February 7, 2007 at 12:24 am

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Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy): Logitech MX700

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From: Detyabozhye’s thread.
Note: these steps do not apply to the mx700 keyboard bundle. Check out the original thread for that.

1.sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
2.sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/19-local.rules (change gedit to editor of your choice)
3.Paste KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{../name}=="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse", NAME="input/event9"
4.Back up xorg settings. sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
5.Open up xorg.conf sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
6.Replace mouse section with

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
EndSection

6.Restart X, ctrl+alt+backspace

Written by xabbott

November 25, 2006 at 3:46 pm

Posted in forums, hardware, linux

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