On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:36:43PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 04:07, Paul Johnson wrote: ... > Oh, and just to give them a mention, let's not forget about trackballs > and touchpads. Both are good alternatives to mice, and great if you > don't do too much really "fast paced" mousing. (i.e. gaming) I used a > trackball for a number of years and I really liked it. Absolutely NO > wrist movement, and most of them are designed to make your hand > EXTREMELY comfortable. I still regularly use a touchpad on my laptop, > though I can't really see myself using for my desktop. (Though I have a > friend who does, and he swears by it.) Why not? I found that I'm quite comfortable with a laptop, even though I often have been "issued" a desktop (Win-Whatever) while working on-site. My solution was to connect the laptop to the customer's network (with permission of course), install a VNC server on the desktop, push the customer's keyboard and mouse out of the way, and run x2vnc: Voila - I never have to move hands off the laptop - except for coffee, coffee, lunch, coffee, coffee, toilet and coffee breaks. But it usually takes a while for the customers to get used to the desktop "doing things" while I'm typing away on the laptop and the mouse pointer scrolling off the laptop onto their desktop... -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: >Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.)
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