Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:06:56 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mousen Message-ID: <199812110306.WAA27300@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:52:05 -1000." <199812110252.QAA06686@pegasus.com> References: <199812110252.QAA06686@pegasus.com>
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> } > Looks like, if you want 3 button and don't like a mouse, the trackball > } > is your ONLY bet. > } > } Not quite; I've got a couple of Alps Glidepoint keyboards which have 3 > } button trackpad pointing devices. Plus, these things also support the > } "tap" gesture as a 4th virtual button. I don't know if they're still > } available any longer, though. > > Isn't the `tap gesture' a Windows driver thing? Nope, the FreeBSD moused supports it. Typically, it gets mapped to button 1, the left mouse button, but you can do something different with it if you want. Some of the trackpads will internally map it to the left button, rather than passing it back as a unique event in the mouse message. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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