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At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:06 -0800, walt wrote: |
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>> > If you look at the amazon page you can sort of see the left and |
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>> right |
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>> > arrows. |
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>> I think a mouse that complicated would make me crazy. |
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> There was a time when Windows and Mac users criticized X11 because it |
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> had too many buttons (3). |
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> Nowadays, Windows users seem to require 20 different buttons, wheels, |
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> knobs, and whatever else they can throw on a pointer device, whereas |
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> Macs seem to want to get rid of buttons altogether but require the user |
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> to do cartwheels and other acrobatics with their fingers in order to do |
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> a simple cut/paste. |
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> FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down, |
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> presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except |
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> I don't use the latter as I haven't found any purpose for it although I |
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> could possibly see it replacing ALT-Tab. Nah... to confusing. |
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Right. Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse). |
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My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e. clicking |
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one physical button results in two button-down events for different X11 |
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buttons and then the corresponding two button-up events). |
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I wonder how to handle this. Actually, I have trouble believing it so |
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wonder if I have some config wrong, but mine are very simple configs. |
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allan |
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