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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:08:47 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <Greg.Lehey@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
Cc:        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Subject:   Re: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse)
Message-ID:  <20040818223847.GR88156@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org>
References:  <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817232816.GO88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040817200137.P4931@thor.farley.org>

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On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 20:18:42 -0500, Sean Farley wrote:
> 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?=20

No.

> It is not needed to run X.

I know.  Without a reason to change, I won't.

>> - 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.

That would defeat the purpose of it being cordless.

Greg
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