On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Well, I recently bought a non-cordless (cordful? corded? > cord-bearing?) optical MouseMan, and it's very nice. You'll > appreciate having an optical mouse, especially if you're at the point > where it seems like you have to clean your current mouse every couple > days. > > I'm not sure if mine is supposed to have four buttons (yeah, I know > how stupid that sounds) -- I vaguely remember it being advertised as > 4-button, but I didn't care as long as it had at least 3 and it didn't > come in a retail box (I got a $19 price on pricewatch). Basically, it > has a wheel with a typical button on each side of the wheel, and a > third button where your thumb rests (it's comfortably ergonomic, BTW). > Also, pressing down on the wheel counts as a button--basically, it > seems to work as another third button. > > Being optical doesn't present any compatibility issues. Mine is USB > but comes with a PS/2 attachment so I can use it as PS/2, and I just > used the PS/2 MouseMan driver in X. > > I guess the real question for you is whether or not cordless mice have > compatibility problems... that I can't answer, since I know very > little about cordless mice. Well my current mouse is a logitech cordless mouseman, and there are no problems there, but the scroll wheel has just gone bust - I figured that I'd got it set up wrongly in Linux, but it turns out it was actually broken. I guess I'm really just curious as to whether it's possible to actually put the fourth mouse button (under the thumb) to any use. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing
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