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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@uvi.edu> Subject: Re: 3 button mice for X11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <31AC49FF.167EB0E7@uvi.edu> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: University of the Virgin Islands References: <4ocfvr$rm6@linet06.li.net> <Pine.3.91.960527233835.14606C-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu> <1996May28.214122.19375@rosevax.rosemount.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:58:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20284 comp.windows.x.i386unix:20130 Grant Edwards wrote: > > 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... ;) > I believe Logitech makes left-handed mice (MouseMan?), I have a right-handed one at home. At work, I am using an *old* Logitech "HiREZ" busmouse that is symetrical (therefore works well both right and left-handed). It has sharp rather than smoothed edges, but I have been using it (or one like it) for years now. The old C7 and C9 mice aren't made anymore, however. -- | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |