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Re: minimize mouse movement (was Re: 2.1 bugs, suggestions.)

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From: Todd Walk
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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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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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:36:29 GMT
Keywords: mouse, slow
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