Re: Simulating a mouse
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse
> pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty
> or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any
> difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the
> meantime:
There will be three rollers inside. Use a fingernail to scrape off any
junk. It might look like a brown stripe of felt is supposed to be
there. It isn't -- it's just dirt. In extremely bad cases it sometimes
helps to clean the mouse ball as well, but that usually affects all
directions of movement.
Damian Menscher
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