From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:54:54 -0500 From: plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Mouse advice for Acme Message-ID: <20080228165454.GB19314@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <63385BC6-CE2F-4176-AB28-8150E515F415@telus.net> <14ec7b180802280726i3de52818y68af265b5083822a@mail.gmail.com> <20080228161510.GA19314@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> <14ec7b180802280826j371310f9je0916fa87629919@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180802280826j371310f9je0916fa87629919@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 67e00b9e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:26:39AM -0700, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > 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. Groovy, I was hoping someone would say it worked fine with Plan 9. Just thought I'd point out a possible problem before someone went to the trouble of ordering one. >> 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. Obviously, I gave up before I found that solution. At any rate, I had decided that I preferred scrolling in the discrete steps a mouse wheel provides vs. trying to gauge how much force to apply to my middle finger to move the window the desired amount. (I expect my middle finger would be in better shape if I drove more instead of taking the bus.)