From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 01:18:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9005516A4CE; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:18:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.farley.org (farley.org [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0287343D2D; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:18:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (yzfnkdla5v4r9lie@thor.farley.org [IPv6:2002:4340:5fcd:1::5]) by mail.farley.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7I1IgMa083359; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thor.farley.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7I1Ig7E005405; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from localhost (sean@localhost)i7I1IgSK005402; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thor.farley.org: sean owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Sean Farley X-X-Sender: sean@thor.farley.org To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" In-Reply-To: <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: BSD User Group of Adelaide cc: FreeBSD Hackers cc: FreeBSD Questions cc: LinuxSA Subject: Re: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:18:48 -0000 On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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. Will you be using moused on the console? It is not needed to run X. > 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. I am not aware of any makers of three-button mice without wheels. However, I have always Logitech as a brand. > - 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. Maybe you can find a cord-to-cordless converter--there is bound to be an engineer that has done this :)--if you find a mouse you like that just happens to have a tail. Sean ----------------------- sean-freebsd@farley.org