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Documentation / Contents - Mouse Settings

• Overview of Mouse Settings
  • The Window
  • The Buttons
  • When Changes Take Effect
  • The Trail and Cursor Daemon
• The Pointer Page
  • Mouse Acceleration
  • Mouse Mapping
  • Click Speed
  • How the Double-Click Time Reaches Applications
• The Trail Page
  • Show mouse trail
  • Trail style
  • Trail length
  • Options for Smoke/Dust FX
    • Smolder
    • Effect spheres
    • Stray pixels
    • Effect type
• The Cursor Page
  • Style
  • Cursor size
  • What This Does and Does Not Cover
• Keys, Files, and the Command Line
  • Keys
  • Command Line
  • The Configuration File
  • Environment Variables
• What Is Not Here
  • Belongs to Another Panel
  • Not Built
  • Known Rough Edges
  • Related Books

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• Copyright Information

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The Mouse Settings help book is part of Blueprint, a clean-room revival of the SGI IRIX Interactive Desktop.

Copyright (c) 2026, Swift Griggs and The Cyanotype Project contributors. All rights reserved. Distributed under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Blueprint is not a product of, nor endorsed by, Silicon Graphics. "IRIX" and "Silicon Graphics" are used only to describe what Blueprint revives. The Pointer page reproduces the IRIX Mouse panel; the Trail and Cursor pages are ours and have no SGI original.