From: "Kurt H Maier via 9fans" <9fans@9fans.net>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:16:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfPegtempkSCeaC3@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B549AFB7D383392C467505FEBAD96E08@prosimetrum.com>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 08:14:44PM +1300, umbraticus@prosimetrum.com wrote:
> > small ones seem to me like a pain to point, and the large ones look
> > like hard to make chords with the big ball in the middle. Could you
> > share your experience?
>
> I use a Kensington Expert which I guess falls into the big
> ball in the middle category. Honestly, most of the time I
> click/chord with my left hand on the thinkpad's trackpad
> buttons while rolling the ball with my right hand, but
> chording with the trackball buttons is also fine. The
> scrollwheel thing is pretty nice too.
My pointing device on the desktop is an L-TRAC trackball, currently sold
by xkeys.com. It's definitely in the 'big ball in the middle' category
but the buttons are mostly huge enough to make up for it -- I've never
found myself straining to reach anything, but I will admit the extension
ports allowing more buttons to be scattered around the desktop is a nice
bonus. I don't recommend the LED-lit models, as they're brighter than
the goddamn sun, and trackball itself is translucent so it just shines
like a beacon. I replaced my ball with a 9-ball to mitigate the glare.
khm
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-28 3:48 Ben Hancock
2022-01-28 4:00 ` Rob Pike
2022-01-28 4:21 ` John Floren
2022-01-28 4:30 ` Mark van Atten
2022-01-28 4:39 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-01-28 4:42 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-01-28 4:47 ` Rob Pike
2022-01-28 4:53 ` umbraticus
2022-01-28 4:56 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-01-28 4:59 ` Marius Eriksen
2022-02-02 7:02 ` David Arroyo
2022-01-28 5:05 ` Ben Hancock
2022-01-28 5:15 ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-28 5:38 ` Rob Pike
2022-01-28 6:08 ` adr
2022-01-28 7:14 ` umbraticus
2022-01-28 7:48 ` sirjofri
2022-01-28 8:04 ` adr
2022-01-28 9:33 ` David Leimbach via 9fans
2022-01-28 11:09 ` fijal
2022-01-29 1:22 ` adr
2022-01-29 11:30 ` fijal
2022-01-29 11:54 ` Steve Simon
2022-01-29 14:07 ` adr
2022-01-28 12:16 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans [this message]
2022-01-28 12:43 ` Steve Simon
2022-01-28 14:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2022-01-28 18:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2022-01-28 4:55 ` ori
2022-01-28 5:06 ` Alex Musolino
2022-01-28 20:24 ` Tony Mendoza
2022-01-29 22:33 ` Oleg Finkelshteyn
2022-02-01 4:25 ` Ben Hancock
2022-02-02 10:37 ` Oleg Finkelshteyn
2022-02-02 11:06 ` hiro
2022-03-22 20:01 ` contact
2022-03-22 23:09 ` Stuart Morrow
2022-03-22 23:20 ` hiro
2022-03-22 23:32 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-03-23 0:00 ` Stuart Morrow
2022-03-23 0:48 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
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