From: Bill Gunshannon <billg999@cs.uofs.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mouse advice for Acme
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:57:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <62o6s6F24a70vU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080228161510.GA19314@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
In article <14ec7b180802280826j371310f9je0916fa87629919@mail.gmail.com>,
mirtchovski@gmail.com (andrey mirtchovski) writes:
> 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.
It does? I thought the solution was to stop using Linux.
Friends don't let friends drive Linux.
bill
--
Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-28 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 11:48 Rodrigo Miranda
2008-02-28 15:22 ` Paul Lalonde
2008-02-28 15:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-28 16:15 ` plan9
2008-02-28 16:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-28 16:40 ` Axel Belinfante
2008-02-28 16:54 ` plan9
2008-02-28 17:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-28 16:57 ` Bill Gunshannon [this message]
2008-02-28 15:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-28 16:09 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-28 16:57 ` Paul Lalonde
2008-02-28 17:12 ` Noah Diewald
2008-03-07 9:31 ` [9fans] " TheAbysmal
2008-03-16 17:18 ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2008-03-16 17:40 ` Axel Belinfante
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