Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:24:16 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: 3 button mouse Message-ID: <20050301012416.45ac6f11@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20050228223126.GL73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4223788C.9060908@attglobal.net> <86hdjw1hfb.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050228223126.GL73162@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:01:26 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Monday, 28 February 2005 at 22:52:08 +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > > David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> writes: > >> I need a three button mouse. Just three buttons, no wheel, no bells, > >> no whistles. I can't find one, as everything has a silly wheel. I'm > >> not picky about interface (PS/2, USB, serial, or Bluetooth will work), > >> or balls v. optical. Does anyone still sell these things? > > > > what do you have against mouse wheels? they are very useful in X, > > and also function as a middle button. > > Let me count the ways... > > 1. Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's > not much use. The second wheel in Opera and Sylpheed-claws doesn't work, but in KDE apps it does. > 2. Setup is non-trivial. Every mouse seems to have its own protocol, > and I have a number here which I can't enable. I guess you don't use cheaper models :) this seem to be easier to setup this days. > 3. They're an ergonomic disaster. The wheel that functions as a > middle button is in the wrong position for this function. It > should be about 15 mm further towards the finger tip. In its > current position, you have to bend your middle finger to touch it, > and then you have to be careful not to turn the wheel (unless it > isn't enabled, in which case it's not a problem). > > 4. In addition to being in the wrong place, the spring on the middle > button is usually too heavy. The only mouse which I can use both wheel and middle button is a cheap A4Tech "Optical GreateAye WheelMouse" WOP-35. All Genius I've tried suffer from what you say above. A few years ago there was a NetMouse or something (from Genius I thinks) which had a 2-position button for scrolling in-place of a wheel, pressing that button's ends was more economical for scrolling that turning the wheel; unfortunately they don't do it anymore. Since this mouse has two more buttons on the sides I was thinking of taking the time to find out how to map them to page up / page down (or better scroll-up / scroll-down) or to move the middle-button click on one of them. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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