01-05-2009
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Originally Posted by
Annihilannic
I have often thought about switching to one of these as my mouse-clicking finger suffers from repetitive strain pain. Not sure that a trackball would help that particular problem much, but I wouldn't buy one just to try it... what I don't understand is why so few shops actually have mice and trackballs on display attached to a computer so you can try them... how do they expect to convince people that they are the right product to try if you can't "feel" them? The feel of an input device is such an important aspect...
Hi Annihilannic,
My boss paid for my device after I suffered of hand inflamation due to the use of the rodent...
I couldnt play organ anymore and suffered hell driving my bike and could not carry anything with my right hand, the doctor made a prescription for the device as "for trial" adding "if not sucessfull, operation is to be planned".
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input-linux-mouse
input-linux-mouse(7) GGI input-linux-mouse(7)
NAME
input-linux-mouse - Direct mouse input
SYNOPSIS
input-linux-mouse: [<mousetype>] [,<file>] [,[b<bauds>][r<rts>][d<dtr>]]
DESCRIPTION
This input opens a file (usually a device file or pipe) and reads mouse protocol data from it.
OPTIONS
mousetype
Indicates what type of mouse is attached. The following types are supported:
o ms, Microsoft : Two button Microsoft compatible mice.
o ms3, IntelliMouse, mman+ : Serial Intellimouse or compatible. Supports four buttons for mice like the Logitech MouseMan+.
o MouseSystems, msc : MouseSystems compatible (used in most 3-button mice).
o Logitech, logi : Used in older Logitech serial mice.
o mm, MMSeries : MM series mice.
o Sun : Sun mice. The protocol is the same as 'msc' protocol except it used only 3 bytes per packet.
o MouseMan, mman : MouseMan protocol.
o BusMouse, bm : Non-PS/2 busmice.
o LinuxUSB, lnxusb : IMPS2 that doesn't choke on USB (no init attempted).
o ps2, PS/2 : PS/2 mice (most non-serial mice use this protocol)
o imps2, IMPS/2 : PS/2 IntelliMouse and compatible (not USB, see lnxusb for that.)
o mmanps2, MouseManPlusPS/2 : PS/2 Logitech MouseMan+ and compatible.
Most of the strings supported by GPM, SVGAlib and XFree can be specified. If you find one that isn't, please report.
The special value auto tells input-linux-mouse to read ~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse, and if that fails, $sysconfdir/ggi/input/linux-
mouse. If none of the two files are found, input-linux-mouse tries to auto-detect the mouse, and as a last resort uses the mouse
information specified in /etc/vga/libvga.config.
file The file to read mouse protocol data from; defaults to /dev/mouse.
baud Baud rate of mouse device.
rts Turns off RTS if set to 0; turns RTS on if set to a number greater than 0.
dtr Turns off DTR if set to 0; turns DTR on if set to a number greater than 0.
FEATURES
o Generates evPtr* events.
FILES
~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse and $sysconfdir/ggi/input/linux-mouse consists of the following entries:
mouse mousetype
mdev file
where mousetype and file has the same semantics as the invocation options of the same names.
libgii-1.0.x 2003-08-11 input-linux-mouse(7)