From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <51D363FA.2010509@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:37:10 -0700 Message-ID: From: Steven Stallion To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6a31fccc-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'm another Lenovo scrollpoint user, though I don't care for it as much as Joseph. I've used the magic mouse on Mac OS for plan9port and drawterm with a couple of actions bound to swipe actions that has worked well too. I've been curious about the contour mouse, though I haven't been curious enough to drop a hundred dollars on one just yet. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Joseph Xu wrote: > I usually just lurk here, but I didn't want anybody else to go through > 3 different mice like I did (HP 3 button mouse, contour mouse, > evoluent mouse) before settling on the lenovo scrollpoint mouse. IMHO > it's the best option that's abundantly available, reasonably priced, > and comfortable to use. It has a real middle button and a scroll > "stick" instead of a wheel. You can rest the tip of your middle finger > over the third button and manipulate the stick with your finger joint, > allowing you to middle click and scroll without repositioning your > finger. Its biggest drawback is the lack of driver support for the > scroll stick on any OS except Windows. In linux and freebsd, the > scroll stick is sensitive to the point of being unusable. I don't know > how it behaves in native plan 9. The only reason I'm happy with it is > because I run plan9port in a linux VM with a Windows host, so the > scroll events are processed by the host. > > Joseph >