It would appear that on Feb 13, Ross Vandegrift did say: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:24:49PM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > I wouldn't mind so much except that for a long time now I can keyboard > > for hours with the only problem being a case of saddle sores from my > > chair... ;-7 But if I wrestle with a mouse pointer for as little as > > 5 minutes, my hand starts going numb... (similar problem if I try to > > do much writing by hand, and good gosh lord help me if I need to sew > > a ripped out pair of pants... > > > > Anyway anytime I HAVE to put down the keyboard in favor of intensive > > mouse work, I'm unhappy. > > I know this is somewhat off-prompt, but there is another solution. > > Trackpoint keyboards are the greatest input device ever conceived. I > don't suffer from any pain from using a mouse, I just prefer not to > most of the time. I once used a laptop that had an integrated > trackpoint and I'm hooked. > > It took some practice to get really comfortable with the mouse pointer > being controlled by my finger on the keyboard, but I'll never go back.
Thanks for the tip Ross, but I think you might like them more than i would... I just googled "trackpoint" to learn that it's what ibm calls a kind of button mouse... I'll admit I haven't used the IBM version But I used to work in a high tech warehouse for Lucent (before they self-destructed) And they used laptops with wireless lans for computer system access terminals on several of their stock picker vehicles (even the electric pallet jacks used for selecting from floor level locations) These had a form of this kind of mouse. For which I found one use. I had some unusual responsibilities which included some inventory control functions which needed to have a number from a screen on one terminal window inserted into another screen on another window before the transaction could be completed. The button mouse did have the advantage that once I got it pointed at the spot where the number was going to appear when I switched back to the screen that provided it, it would still be pointed in the right place a few minutes later when I had to complete another transaction... However when I would occasionally have reason to use a windows program running on the laptop itself (OK at break time I could get away with playing mahjong...) I found that I couldn't use the button mouse continuously any better than using a trackball (Which I'll admit is better for me than a regular mouse... ( IE if I can use a mouse for 5 minutes before a problem develops I can probably use a trackball for 10... But I still want a solution that will let my trackball and my laptop's <sigh> touchpad gather dust most of the time... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<[email protected]>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
