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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: 3 button mice for X11
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Jamie Bowden (bowden@cs.odu.edu) wrote:
: On 27 May 1996, John W. Carbone wrote:

: > Would someone please recommend a 3 button mouse that is NOT
: > specifically designed for right handed people?

: In your window manager rescource file, you assign what button does what,
: making 'left' and 'right' handed mean nothing as far as mice are
: concerned.

But it's darned hard to make the plastic curve the other way by editing X11
config files...   ;)

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