Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 11:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/16/18 11:33 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > But in my home the less cords the better. > > But in my home the fewer cords the better. +1 :-) poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:50:48 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I see I want an optical track ball device. > with 2 buttons. > with some sort of wheel equivalent. https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Wireless-Trackball-K72359WW/dp/B01936N73I/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1542366386&sr=1-3

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/18 6:12 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:50:48 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: I see I want an optical track ball device. with 2 buttons. with some sort of wheel equivalent. https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Wireless-Trackball-K72359WW/dp/B01936N73I/ref=sr_1_3?s=el

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/16/18 7:12 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > The wrist rest is a bit > cheesy and doesn't attach all that well I think I used that for about a day.  It added no value, for me. -- Fedora Users - The place to go to beat OT dead horses :-) :-) ___ users mail

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 November 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > If you use X11 instead of wayland it is even trivial to setup > one of the extra buttons for "drag lock" so you don't have to engage > in contortions to hold down a button and roll the trackball > at the same time to do a drag. Care to s

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Roger Heflin
The trackballs like the Logitech M570 are pretty easy to press and drag. Some of the ones with the ball in the middle are a lot harder to drag with. I use an ancient wired usb trackman marble with a scroll wheel and a retainer that prevents the ball from running away that is around 20 years old

Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:40:18 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Care to spill the beans? That has been one thing that dissuades me > from using trackballs, or even trackpads. This is the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/99-zzz-me-last.sh file I use with my Kensington Expert Mouse: #!/bin/bash # # Setup the m

[Solved, hopefully] Re: Mounting internal disk spins up connected external USB disks

2018-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:38:39PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Mounting an internally installed disk on a laptop spins up all disks connected to this machine via USB. And I try to prevent these externally connected disks to spin up. The behaviour, IIRC, started a few months ago on the previo

Re: [Solved, hopefully] Re: Mounting internal disk spins up connected external USB disks

2018-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 01:34:07AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: The behaviour, IIRC, started a few months ago on the previous F27 and continues now on F28. Before that I don't remember this behaviour to have happened. Solution: systemctl mask --now smartd So far this seems to work, here on