From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <9931676A-1077-4F09-BDAA-9A9F5961926D@fastmail.fm> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <705098899b47849dbc607dd999b7028d@proxima.alt.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:05:45 +0100 References: <705098899b47849dbc607dd999b7028d@proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] three sets of windows Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10e3f168-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. > > ++L > > -- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis