From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e61001060559y6a118e5qeac89b7e4437990b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080524161806.B1B3B1E8C56@holo.morphisms.net> <5339c545ab101671638d533f0ddc5998@smgl.fr.eu.org> <3e1162e61001060559y6a118e5qeac89b7e4437990b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:58:51 +0100 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8034260-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I own the old optical logitech mouse. It has fallen down a lot, also it was swinged against walls because of driver issues and one very rainy night I forgot it outside, connected to my x60s in standby. I'm still using both without any problems, although I often had to reboot the thinkpad because of software and again driver issues. Four years ago the left button started getting hard to press, it was a slow transition, so I learned to hit the right spot of it. Now it seems the problem has gone away by itself. I never understood the problem of clicking that scrolling wheel. The only ongoing problem is that I sometimes have to clean my desk, because these old mice only work on few kinds of surfaces. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:59 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Russ Cox wrote: >> >> > I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse >> > using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p). >> >> Paul's code is now in p9p. =C2=A0Because the code can read >> where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can >> pretend there are three different buttons when in fact >> there's just one. =C2=A0Chording works too, and it's all very natural. >> It's quite elegant actually. =C2=A0Kudos to Paul. =C2=A0I hope that the >> code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as >> 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that. > > In fact it has made the trackpad unusable for me as I can't highlight > anything with a click of any kind at this point. =C2=A0Now if you have a = mac > multi-touch laptop, you're going to have get an external mouse. > >> >> However, if you have any tendency toward repetitive strain injuries, >> you might want to avoid the Magic Mouse: not being able to touch >> the mouse with the non-clicking fingers means a less relaxing grip, >> especially when pretending its tiny surface has three buttons. >> After maybe four hours of use, my wrist had started to hurt. >> >> (I had a bad desk twelve years ago that hurt my wrists, and >> now they're sensitive to this kind of thing. =C2=A0But I'm not the only >> one - http://boingboing.net/2009/12/03/magic-mouse.html - and >> presumably that guy wasn't using 3 buttons or chording.) >> >> Back to the Evoluents for me. > > I'm back to using trackballs :-) . =C2=A0And I guess I either have to fix= this > problem with the trackpad myself or wait for a fix or use an external > pointing device. > Dave >> >> Russ >> > >