You can use keys as mouse buttons.
I still prefer a separate mouse but sometimes it is not an option.
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Curiosity sKilled the cat
G.
On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:47 PM, "Gary V. Vaughan" <g...@vaughan.pe> wrote:
On 28 Apr 2010, at 22:05, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:40, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
if you're feeling ambitions and want something more like your
laptops track pad.
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?
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,
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Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org>
