Tim: > > I would be suspicious of the mouse, itself. I have something going > > wrong with a mouse on an extension lead (and it behaves like that).
Robert Moskowitz: > My Inland regular sized mouse is working fine. This traveler sized > Verbatim is not. I wonder how old it is and maybe that is part of the > problem? It works fine on my Lenovo x140e and F41. Could be. If it has a worn plug, other sockets may simply have a slightly better grip. I had another mouse where metal fatigue had broken the wiring just where it enters the mouse. You could make the mouse come alive and die by flexing the cable at that point, and it would do that in use. I just shortened the cable and resoldered the wiring, since that was easy for me to do. Anyone else would just have replaced it. That part (where the cable comes out of the mouse body) gets flexed a lot, and maybe bashed into other things on the desk. Long ago I saw a nifty solution to this problem, but it probably doesn't exist any more: A mouse pad that's cabled to the computer, with a passive mouse that had no cable or battery in it. It probably worked on the same principle as the Wacom pads. The pad is not going to move much, so cables have a long life. Being cordless, the mouse never gets tangled in anything, and the mouse will never require you do do anything to it to maintain it. Wireless mice, on the other hand, usually have some kind of Bluetooth receiver-transmitter combination that need to be paired together by you, and will have batteries that need to be charged or replaced in the mouse. There are other types with a proprietary transmitter type, but Bluetooth is probably a better proposition (e.g. if your computer has Bluetooth, you wouldn't need to use their USB dongle). I also wonder how you'd fair in a room full of other wireless devices? e.g. Gaming and conferences. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
