From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 10 19:12:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03027 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:12:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03021 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:12:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA61150; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:11:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:11:03 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: Richard Foulk , FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mousen In-Reply-To: <199812110306.WAA27300@whizzo.transsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > } > Looks like, if you want 3 button and don't like a mouse, the trackball > > } > is your ONLY bet. > > } > > } Not quite; I've got a couple of Alps Glidepoint keyboards which have 3 > > } button trackpad pointing devices. Plus, these things also support the > > } "tap" gesture as a 4th virtual button. I don't know if they're still > > } available any longer, though. > > > > Isn't the `tap gesture' a Windows driver thing? > > Nope, the FreeBSD moused supports it. Typically, it gets mapped to > button 1, the left mouse button, but you can do something different with > it if you want. Some of the trackpads will internally map it to the > left button, rather than passing it back as a unique event in the > mouse message. Yeah, and XFree86 explicitly supports the double-click too. > > louie > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message