Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:31:57 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks? Message-ID: <20090910233157.GB21716@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20090910230704.GB27299@thought.org> References: <20090909210833.GA23467@thought.org> <20090910102925.1ea9ffd3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090910165129.GA20641@kokopelli.hydra> <20090910230704.GB27299@thought.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I just turn off the touchpad in my ThinkPad's BIOS/CMOS settings. That's > > pretty much the *first* thing I do with a new ThinkPad, before I even > > install a halfway decent operating system on it. I have a tendency to > > accidentaly move the mouse around while typing, otherwise. > > > > > BIOS. That's what i couldn't remember. so you still *can* > toggle the laptop pointer on/off. in my long-defunt 600E > i could plug in an external mouse and off the t'point. good to > know you can turn off the pad and still use the other pointing > device. Yes, you can -- otherwise, I'd be highly irritated with laptops in general. > > > > Unfortunately, the OP was asking about netbook-sized computers, and last > > I checked the only netbooks offered by Lenovo are IdeaPads -- which are > > exactly like ThinkPads, except the construction is a little cheaper and > > the pointing device is always a touchpad. > > > hm. if i can go into the bios of this ideapad and disable the > t'pad; then use a wireless mouse, that would work. my plans are > to build a text-to-speech computer. kde has a bunch of tools > that are very useable. vi has -- or used to have -- the ability > to store abbrv that would expand as typed. you type "tht"; vi > outputs "that" I hope that works out for you, then. It wouldn't really work for me, since I want a trackpoint -- which is why I haven't gotten a Lenovo laptop with an NVIDIA adapter (since they tend to only put those in IdeaPads, and not ThinkPads, which are left with ATI graphics adapters instead). . . . and yes, you can still do that with vi (and Vim). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Philip Machanick: "caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you leave will resign" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqpjG0ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW6lACfZxBry4rPRdtZim+2pvOLd8Tr i1kAoKGnKooq2Xwd3PY8/q18GaEPL6Gt =QnBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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