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Article #16118Re: minimize mouse movement (was Re: 2.1 bugs, suggestions.)
From: Todd Walk
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:36
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:36
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wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes: >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? >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? What's needed is a balistic mouse driver. Todd Walk walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!walk 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> Message-ID: <C1Ftst.J9t@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:36:29 GMT Keywords: mouse, slow Lines: 21