Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:11:03 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mousen Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812102210350.329-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199812110306.WAA27300@whizzo.transsys.com>
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > } > 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. Yeah, and XFree86 explicitly supports the double-click too. > > louie > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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