Re: XF86Config-4

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:17:06 +0800 John Summerfield
<summer os2 ami com au> spit forth:

> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:29:39 -0700 (MST) Craig White
> > <craigwhite azapple com> spit forth:
> > 
> > > stupid cleanup items that frustrate me...
> > > 
> > > 1. I have a Kensington Optical mouse, middle scroll wheel doesn't
> scroll
> > > any
> > > applications that I can tell.
> > 
> > Don't have (or need) a wheel mouse. Don't know.
> 
> 
> Mine (Kensington USB Turboball) works very nicely in GNOME. Not at all 
> in KDE as far as I can tell.
> 
> It's extremely useful to be able to scroll up & down terminal windows 
> using the wheel (I'm looking at the output of MVS jobs).

I wasn't knocking them. There's one at work and I can see where it may
have some useful functionality. I've just learned to work without it and
can't see getting one. I use a trackball because I don't have a lot of
desktop space (2 keyboards, a touchpad for another PC, one PC with linux,
one with NT, 2 monitors, a cdwriter, 1-1/2 million CDs crammed all over
the top, most of which are educational items for PC #3, which is my
2-year-old son's 'Doze machine sitting about 2-1/2 feet off my right elbow
[and his chair sitting even closer to said elbow], a MAC, scanner, 2
printers ..... well, you get the picture). A mouse would take up too much
space for me. Under the circumstances, even a trackball with a wheel-type
function wouldn't serve me well.

-- 
To boldly go where I surely don't belong.