From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200802071945.m17JjEX10598@demeter.cs.utwente.nl> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:11:44 +0000." <54b68d85f3669910c7a4080971cd8016@quintile.net> References: <54b68d85f3669910c7a4080971cd8016@quintile.net> From: Axel Belinfante MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <10593.1202413513.1@demeter> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:45:14 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4b892764-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > I've quit using p9p rio... to use multiple desktops well, you need a scroll > > wheel, but using a scroll wheel for midclick is terrible. Now, I use a real > > 3 button mouse and stumpwm on Linux. > > this _might_ appeal, but it might not. > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-ThinkPlus-Optical-3-Button-ScrollPoint/dp/B00007DTC6 I'm using the 31P7405 that matches picture (expect for brand name :-) of (found a few unexpectedly inexpensive on ebay) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-ThinkPlus-Optical-3-Button-ScrollPoint/dp/B00009VFIV/ before that one I've been using three button mice for years. the middle button of the scrollpoint mouse is much farther away than on the mice I used before, so occasionally I hit the scrollpoint (blue thingy) while clicking the middle button. neverthless, I never expected I would like the scroll point so much. regarding p9p rio - some years ago I tried hacking it to keep transient windows on top of their main windows (by suggestion from Russ) but I messed up the code, my changes were too complex, and it would occasionally break. I thought that I should first read the icccm documents and retry, but of course never got to it. since then I started using osx and acme-sac instead of p9p, so chances are slim I'll return to hacking p9p rio... Axel.