From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 23:28:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D3116A4CE; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:28:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDC343D3F; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:28:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081782BD68; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:28:19 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 022F051201; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:58:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:58:16 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Sean Farley Message-ID: <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817110515.F67959@thor.farley.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="K9fy5ol1Oes4Q/ix" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040817110515.F67959@thor.farley.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: AUUG: Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.auug.org.au/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:39:13 +0000 cc: FreeBSD Hackers cc: BSD User Group of Adelaide cc: FreeBSD Questions cc: LinuxSA Subject: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:28:23 -0000 --K9fy5ol1Oes4Q/ix Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 11:13:17 -0500, Sean Farley wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> This mouse has five buttons: the normal three on top, and one on each >> side. I can't find a way to get the side buttons to work, and looking >> on the web hasn't shown anything of interest. > > I assume you mean in X as opposed to moused although moused appears to > support at least five buttons according to its man page. No, this is with moused. It still needs to initialize the mouse. > This may help with your X issues: > http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse5.html#22 Yes, been through all of that and more. Nothing worked. In the meantime I've connected it up anyway as a 3 button mouse and decided I really don't like it; the buttons are far too heavy in their action, and it's difficult to move it sideways without pressing one of the side buttons. So this is not much of an issue any more. Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are: - Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button either heavy or easy to confuse with the roller. - Preferably cordless. Cord mice tend to wander a little when you let go of them, and that's a real nuisance on a high-resolution display. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger Greg.Lehey@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --K9fy5ol1Oes4Q/ix Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBIpSQIubykFB6QiMRAt7uAKCMf73tYGbMv93gqldZi0qf9127MwCgs+3P 1u79I8AjzGLRwkqESXfMJ8s= =OUHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K9fy5ol1Oes4Q/ix--