At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:06 -0800, walt wrote: >> > If you look at the amazon page you can sort of see the left and >> right >> > arrows. >> >> I think a mouse that complicated would make me crazy. > > There was a time when Windows and Mac users criticized X11 because it > had too many buttons (3). > > Nowadays, Windows users seem to require 20 different buttons, wheels, > knobs, and whatever else they can throw on a pointer device, whereas > Macs seem to want to get rid of buttons altogether but require the user > to do cartwheels and other acrobatics with their fingers in order to do > a simple cut/paste. > > FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down, > presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except > I don't use the latter as I haven't found any purpose for it although I > could possibly see it replacing ALT-Tab. Nah... to confusing. Right. Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse). My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e. clicking one physical button results in two button-down events for different X11 buttons and then the corresponding two button-up events). I wonder how to handle this. Actually, I have trouble believing it so wonder if I have some config wrong, but mine are very simple configs. allan
