Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?

["Peter A. Cejchan" <tyapca7@gmail.com>]

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I have ThinkPad T23 and the stick works with native Plan 9...
++pac


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Joseph Xu <josephzxu@gmail.com> 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
>
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