From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 23:34:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234D116A4CF for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:34:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949B743D60 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A79D585680; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:04:29 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:04:29 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Message-ID: <20050228233429.GN73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4223788C.9060908@attglobal.net> <86hdjw1hfb.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050228223126.GL73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050301012416.45ac6f11@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="citGix+cyBYE+lqp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050301012416.45ac6f11@it.buh.tecnik93.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: David Scheidt Subject: Re: 3 button mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:34:33 -0000 --citGix+cyBYE+lqp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 1:24:16 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:01:26 +1030 > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 28 February 2005 at 22:52:08 +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: >>> David Scheidt writes: >>>> I need a three button mouse. Just three buttons, no wheel, no bells, >>>> no whistles. I can't find one, as everything has a silly wheel. I'm >>>> not picky about interface (PS/2, USB, serial, or Bluetooth will work), >>>> or balls v. optical. Does anyone still sell these things? >>> >>> what do you have against mouse wheels? they are very useful in X, >>> and also function as a middle button. >> >> Let me count the ways... >> >> 1. Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's >> not much use. > > The second wheel in Opera and Sylpheed-claws doesn't work, but in KDE > apps it does. Getting a browser that works is bad enough without having to limit yourself to those browsers that support mouse wheels. I can barely find any browser that is usable. I don't want to restrict my choice further. >> 2. Setup is non-trivial. Every mouse seems to have its own protocol, >> and I have a number here which I can't enable. > > I guess you don't use cheaper models :) this seem to be easier to > setup this days. I use very cheap mice. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --citGix+cyBYE+lqp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCI6qFIubykFB6QiMRAmZZAJ49KGfIUcOncTz+EdKH2lWvQ0lLPwCfbrvY TH/Wf0tZvDy7s2zt8iyxZWw= =2dFp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --citGix+cyBYE+lqp--