On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> > I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse
> > using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p).
>
> Paul's code is now in p9p.  Because the code can read
> where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can
> pretend there are three different buttons when in fact
> there's just one.  Chording works too, and it's all very natural.
> It's quite elegant actually.  Kudos to Paul.  I hope that the
> code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as
> 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that.
>

In fact it has made the trackpad unusable for me as I can't highlight
anything with a click of any kind at this point.  Now if you have a mac
multi-touch laptop, you're going to have get an external mouse.


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> However, if you have any tendency toward repetitive strain injuries,
> you might want to avoid the Magic Mouse: not being able to touch
> the mouse with the non-clicking fingers means a less relaxing grip,
> especially when pretending its tiny surface has three buttons.
> After maybe four hours of use, my wrist had started to hurt.
>
> (I had a bad desk twelve years ago that hurt my wrists, and
> now they're sensitive to this kind of thing.  But I'm not the only
> one - http://boingboing.net/2009/12/03/magic-mouse.html - and
> presumably that guy wasn't using 3 buttons or chording.)
>
> Back to the Evoluents for me.
>

I'm back to using trackballs :-) .  And I guess I either have to fix this
problem with the trackpad myself or wait for a fix or use an external
pointing device.

Dave

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