From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Gary V. Vaughan" In-Reply-To: <9931676A-1077-4F09-BDAA-9A9F5961926D@fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:47:06 +0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <705098899b47849dbc607dd999b7028d@proxima.alt.za> <9931676A-1077-4F09-BDAA-9A9F5961926D@fastmail.fm> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Cc: lucio@proxima.alt.za Subject: Re: [9fans] three sets of windows Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10f8340c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 28 Apr 2010, at 22:05, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > 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. >>=20 >> 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? >=20 > 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. It did that simply by enforcing a minimum time (maybe around 1000ms) = from the last key press before interpreting any input from the trackpad. = I found it quite annoying since my trackpad felt like it needed a = sturdy poke to make it responsive again if I wanted to move the cursor = around while editing something. My MBP, and I believe all the newer Apple laptops, no longer offer that = option, but they work all the better for it. I don't know quite how it = works in this incarnation, but I neither move my cursor accidentally nor = feel like poking the trackpad until it comes back to life nowadays :) = Additionally the area is surprisingly large now that no space is devoted = to a button, and the whole trackpad can be clicked. Sadly, when I upgraded Parallels my Plan9 VM stopped booting, and I = haven't bothered to try and get it going again since I mostly work with = my laptop balanced on my lap so a physical mouse is not at all useful... = and I haven't found a comfortable way of mousechording with an = all-in-one trackpad/button :( Surely I'm not the only one that dislikes = separate mice? Cheers, --=20 Gary V. Vaughan =