Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

[Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>]

You can use keys as mouse buttons.
I still prefer a separate mouse but sometimes it is not an option.

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Curiosity sKilled the cat

G.

On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:47 PM, "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@vaughan.pe> wrote:

> On 28 Apr 2010, at 22:05, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
>> On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:40, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
>>>> if you're feeling ambitions and want something more like your
>>>> laptops track pad.
>>>
>>> Surely you jest?  Something that repositions the cursor to an
>>> uninteresting location in the middle of a document by simply
>>> hovering
>>> one's thumb in the vicinity of the space bar?  Or am I just
>>> particularly cursed with this?
>>
>> I expect it's a trackpad quality kind of thing. On the ancient
>> iBook I have, in System Preferences there's a checkbox labelled
>> "Prevent accidental trackpad input." I don't know quite what it
>> does or how it does it, but it works very well for me.
>
> It did that simply by enforcing a minimum time (maybe around 1000ms)
> from the last key press before interpreting any input from the
> trackpad.  I found it quite annoying since my trackpad felt like it
> needed a sturdy poke to make it responsive again if I wanted to move
> the cursor around while editing something.
>
> My MBP, and I believe all the newer Apple laptops, no longer offer
> that option, but they work all the better for it.  I don't know
> quite how it works in this incarnation, but I neither move my cursor
> accidentally nor feel like poking the trackpad until it comes back
> to life nowadays :)  Additionally the area is surprisingly large now
> that no space is devoted to a button, and the whole trackpad can be
> clicked.
>
> Sadly, when I upgraded Parallels my Plan9 VM stopped booting, and I
> haven't bothered to try and get it going again since I mostly work
> with my laptop balanced on my lap so a physical mouse is not at all
> useful... and I haven't found a comfortable way of mousechording
> with an all-in-one trackpad/button :( Surely I'm not the only one
> that dislikes separate mice?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>