Re: Recommend Three Button Mouse? (fwd)
Re: Recommend Three Button Mouse? (fwd)
- Subject: Re: Recommend Three Button Mouse? (fwd)
- From: Timothy Goins <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:46:30 -0600
I tend to differ with all the posts regarding mice. I made the switch
from AIX/HPUX/SG/Solaris/Linux to OS X several years ago. I have used
all but OS X professionally, and have used all the mice that have been
mentioned in this thread as well as some others. My Mighty Mouse
(optical) that I have used for several years has been the most
reliable of them all, both for standard Apple applications as well as
X-11. True, the "wheel button" can get dirty; hence, canned air. But
I have had absolutely no problems using it as a 3 mutton mouse in Unix
(I know, nasty word these days) applications. I do NOT use a mouse
pad. Never have in the 20+ years I've been in IT. But I do keep my
equipment clean (no potato chips, cigarette smoke, sodas, etc. get
near my gear).
Mice? They are the least of my programming problems.
Tim
On Sep 20, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Philip Dennison wrote:
I originally sent this to the original poster only, but am sending
again
to the list as my experiences differ from other posters. I have tried
Logitech mice, but didn't find the driver as friendly as Kensington. I
haven't tried any of the separate USB driver packages though.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:39:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Dennison <email@hidden>
To: Rippit the Ogg Frog <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Recommend Three Button Mouse?
I use Kensington mice on all the Macs in my lab, wired USB, two button
plus scroll wheel which doubles as middle button. I think they are
called
'mouse-in-a-box optical'. The reason I like Kensington is their driver
software 'Mouseworks'. This allows you to program 'chording', multiple
button presses, as well as the usual. So I have left button as a
normal
click, middle as option-click, right as apple-click, and left+right as
control-click.
One note of caution is that I tried two new mice recently that were
not
recognized by MouseWorks, so there may be some issues with current
production.
For a pure USB optical three-button mouse, there is one available from
HP, model DY651A. I bought this to test with my other Unix systems,
but
haven't tried it under Linuix yet. My SGIs couldn't drive it.
Regards,
Phil.
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