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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: minimize mouse movement (was Re: 2.1 bugs, suggestions.)
- References: <mortenk.186.727700679@dhhalden.no> <gershon.727824147@husc.harvard.edu> <1993Jan25.072101.28604@weyrich.UUCP> <1993Jan25.082527.16070@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:36:29 GMT
- Keywords: mouse, slow
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- wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan25.072101.28604@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
- >>While we are talking about features to minimize mouse movement -- how about
- >>putting the CLOSE option at the top of the pull-down menu invoked by the
- >>top left corner of a window? 9 times out of 10, if I open the menu, that's what
- >>I want to do, rather than having to hunt down the list to find it at some
- >>window-dependent place in the list?
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- >How about making the mouse pointer move further across the screen for the
- >same amount of mouse movement! My wrist gets sore from having to pick up
- >my mouse so often and put it back down just because I've run out of
- >mousepad space. (I'm using a 1024x768 resolution. Can't IBM skip some
- >pixels or something?) I remember hearing that they made a double speed for
- >PS/2 mice or something similar a while back, but what about everyone else?
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- What's needed is a balistic mouse driver.
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- Todd Walk
- walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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