From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 22:38:54 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 28BD016A4CE; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:38:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4C743D2D; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:38:53 +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 F06642BDED; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:38:50 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A11AF511FA; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:08:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:08:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Sean Farley Message-ID: <20040818223847.GR88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J9YdZykiGPT3Jhx7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040817200137.P4931@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 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 22:38:54 -0000 --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--