From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 10 23:32:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CCA1065679 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:32:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-15.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-15.bluehost.com [69.89.18.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB2968FC13 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3990 invoked by uid 0); 10 Sep 2009 23:31:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2009 23:31:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=XKjmX71lOZp38R9evROpsh970WL9RkCfLagC2P4ga2zpq+xefeJix31aTouLxr2HbWBjADTWwhGQCNdXKpcOmaKTZsJuH4AqPbwK2NMk534YSvhid2eB47KFWEXPIq10; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mlt7P-0005TF-1l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:31:59 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:31:57 -0600 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:31:57 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20090910233157.GB21716@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20090909210833.GA23467@thought.org> <20090910102925.1ea9ffd3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090910165129.GA20641@kokopelli.hydra> <20090910230704.GB27299@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090910230704.GB27299@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:32:00 -0000 --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 >=20 >=20 > BIOS. That's what i couldn't remember. so you still *can* > toggle the laptop pointer on/off. in my long-defunt 600E=20 > 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=20 > device. =20 Yes, you can -- otherwise, I'd be highly irritated with laptops in general. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 >=20 > 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=20 > to store abbrv that would expand as typed. you type "tht"; vi=20 > 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). =2E . . and yes, you can still do that with vi (and Vim). --=20 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" --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqpjG0ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW6lACfZxBry4rPRdtZim+2pvOLd8Tr i1kAoKGnKooq2Xwd3PY8/q18GaEPL6Gt =QnBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC--