Linux magnet mouse pointer?

[Blitz]

Hey, yesterday I tried linux mint cinnamon and it is pretty good just one problem with lix...
When I open lix with linux everything is fine until after the name selection the game pointer seems to be pulled to the edge I sometimes had the problem that the mouse jumped out of the x but I had never had anything like that before do you have any solution
I use virtual box
Recordings come

[Simon]

Interesting that this happens on Linux now. Thanks for the report!

Sounds like an oddity with my infinite mouse movement, which has always been fickle to implement, but it's necessary for the scrolling.

What's your mouse speed in the options menu (main menu -> Controls -> Mouse Speed)? I assume it's 10. Please change it to 20. Does that fix the problem already?

On the same page of options, there is also "Fast movement untraps mouse". Does activating this option fix the problem?

(If the bug hits you so hard that you can't even navigate into the options menu, you can change these options outside Lix by editing the settings file by hand with a text editor. The file sits in (lix)/user/options.sdl, the options are mouseSpeed and fastMovementFreesMouse.)

-- Simon

[Blitz]

Its really weird its a Mix of Very fast movement and Magnetic mouse movement but I will try it
btw i can't go to settings and software fullscreen doesn't help

[Forestidia86]

How did you get your Lix-version? Have you built it yourself or downloaded it (from where?)?
Is Lix the only program that shows weird mouse behavior?

[Blitz]

i used flatpak for mint and Linux lix 10.26.zip doesnt work?
Yes Lix is the only progamm with that

[Simon]

btw i can't go to settings and software fullscreen doesn't help

Thanks for testing software fullscreen. Hmm, both windowed and fullscreen give you the bad mouse behavior, that's bad. Let's see if mouse speed 20 fixes it. Please try hand-editing Lix's config file then, as I explained. The config file is hard to find for Flatpak Lix; in a pinch, search in your entire home directory for the file:

options.sdl

and Linux lix 10.26.zip doesnt work?

I assume that you mean lix-0.10.26-linux64.zip from here.

What is "doesn't work": The mouse behavior? Or does Lix fail to run entirely?

If "doesn't work" means that it fails to run at all: Install Allegro 5, then try it again. I rely on system-wide installed Allegro 5. I don't explain this dependency (system-wide-installed Allegro 5) on the github download page, I probably should; I don't know what's best.

If that doesn't help: What errors do you get?

-- Simon

[Blitz]

Yeah its zip first I thought why lix doesn't it appear but there was a bin folder where the file was but I couldn't open the batch file no error no display nothing and arch no thanks I can't program

[Simon]

bin folder where the file was but I couldn't open the batch file no error no display nothing

Right, install Allegro 5 in Linux Mint, then re-run Lix.

arch no thanks I can't program

This has nothing to do with Arch. Arch is a Linux distro. Allegro 5 is a game/multimedia library that must be installed before Lix can run. You don't have to write any code.

-- Simon

[Blitz]

When I'm at home I'll do it. The last few days were very time-limited because of school. I'm at 16:00 home

[Simon]

I'm beginning to think that all platforms, including Linux, should get default mouse speed 20, which is 100 % (and not 10 on Linux and 20 elsewhere, as in Lix 0.10.26). All platforms, including Linux, should have fast-movement-frees-mouse activated by default (and not deactivated on Linux and activated elsewhere, as in Lix 0.10.26).

I forgot why I made those exceptions 4-7 years ago, and my git history isn't telling me.

Fun times: The git history for 74d0af34 from August 2017 merely tells me that the porcupine has burrowed itself backwards in confusion. I wrote: "I, on Linux, had strange bugs with A5.2 when the mouse became suddenly forced-trapped by warping it to the center all the time. The regular mouse movement became slippery and overshot like mad. Therefore, on Linux, fast movement frees mouse by default. I like that better independently of the bug anyway."

But the changes in 74d0af34 keep it deactivated on Linux (i.e., fast movement doesn't free the mouse) and activates it elsewhere. Completely backward to what I wrote.

Yes, 100 % I'm certain that we'll activate it everywhere by default in 0.10.27. Expect a release sometime during November.

-- Simon