From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 22 08:13:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03059 for current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [193.125.152.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA03017; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA28246 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:08:56 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sun, 22 Sep 96 19:08:56 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA00398; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:08:08 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199609221508.TAA00398@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: Default mousepointer position In-Reply-To: <199609220927.LAA03997@DeepCore.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at "Sep 22, 96 11:27:07 am" To: sos@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:08:08 +0400 (MSD) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL26 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > In reply to [______ ______] who wrote: > > After login, mousepointer appearse at 0,0 > > Since mouse not actively used, it can stay much time there, maybe forever. > > The disadvantage of it is that recognition of the character > > at 0,0 becomes much harder, so I forced to move mouse off without > > mouse-related reason or look from closer position. > > Why do you turn on the mouse if you dont use it ?? I think, you understand :-) I use it rare on some screens for cut & paste and never use it on another screens. If you interested in my personal approx statistics: for 4 hours of work I use mouse 5 times on 3 screens (from 12). Since it is hard to guess moment when mouse will be needed, and it can happens even inside program, I turn mouse on in my .login. > > > I have suggestion to change default mousepointer location to 80,25 > > instead (lastX-charWidth,lastY-charHeight in pixels). In _very_ rare > > cases any character appearse there. > > If the default should be changed I'd suggest putting in the middle > of the screen... Middlescreen is not good, because cover some character too. I choose last position because it is almost impossible (without special IC/DC trick) put the characer there due to line wrapping, so it stays empty most of time. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/