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It's trivially easy to change those with xset:

> xset m <ACCELERATION> <THRESHOLD>

and:

> xset r rate <delay in milliseconds before auto repeat starts> <repeat rate per second>

I'm of the opinion that it's not a window manager's job to deal with mouse acceleration or keyboard repeat rates in the first place.

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I can change them trivially in KDE, so there is no need to stick the commands in .xinitrc. FYI, allowing mouse acceleration threshold to be set to 0 was added in year 2003 in KDE:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31189

Anyway, I certainly agree with your opinion. It is just that I think E17 is more than a window manager, and I would place it in the same category as XFCE.

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