Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <Greg.Lehey@FreeBSD.org> Cc: LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au> Subject: Re: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse) Message-ID: <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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? It is not needed to run X. <snip> > Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are: > > - Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle > button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button > either heavy or easy to confuse with the roller. I am not aware of any makers of three-button mice without wheels. However, I have always Logitech as a brand. > - 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. Sean ----------------------- sean-freebsd@farley.org
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