From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180802280826j371310f9je0916fa87629919@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:26:39 -0700 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Mouse advice for Acme In-Reply-To: <20080228161510.GA19314@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <63385BC6-CE2F-4176-AB28-8150E515F415@telus.net> <14ec7b180802280726i3de52818y68af265b5083822a@mail.gmail.com> <20080228161510.GA19314@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 67535f14-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 the original poster asked about OSX and Plan 9, on which the scrollpoint works quite fine: i've been using one for close to 6 years now. > I have a couple of those, but found I didn't like the scroll knob. > Under Linux (sorry) at least, it was way too sensitive. I couldn't > press and release it fast enough to scroll, say, 3-4 lines. Whatever yes, it's crap under Linux, but what isn't? ;) there is a solution for that, but as one would expect, it requires patching the kernel and recompiling it.