Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:08:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <Greg.Lehey@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> Cc: LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au> Subject: Re: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse) Message-ID: <20040818223847.GR88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org>
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--J9YdZykiGPT3Jhx7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 20:18:42 -0500, Sean Farley wrote: > 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?=20 No. > It is not needed to run X. I know. Without a reason to change, I won't. >> - 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. That would defeat the purpose of it being cordless. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger Greg.Lehey@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --J9YdZykiGPT3Jhx7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBI9p3IubykFB6QiMRAqi0AJ9MMhI45BScymqEWRO6Podn5db62ACgle2h U0d303xmoyajVYLIyziCK/8= =xZ8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J9YdZykiGPT3Jhx7--
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