🚀 go-pugleaf

There is another simple solution which you may or may not like -- a trackball!
I have no room on my desk at this point (like anybody else out there that
seems to believe that things get scattered by themselves), so I went to a
trackball about a year ago.  After about 2 days of use, I decided that I would
never go back to a mouse again!  My only recommendation is to get a trackball
that is ergonomically designed.  This is what I'm talking about:

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|             |   |  |   |  |   |
|   ------    | * |  | * |  | * |       Note: the *'s represent the buttons
|  /      \   |   |  |   |  |   |
|  |      |   -----  -----  -----
|  | ball |   
|  \------/
|
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The above is a slightly disproportionate view of a well designed trackball. 
You use your thumb for the ball and you press the buttons with your first
three fingers (like a regular mouse).  

This is a bad trackball:

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| -------  --------  ---------- |
| |     |  |      |  |        | |
| |  *  |  |   *  |  |    *   | |
| |     |  |      |  |        | |
| -------  --------  ---------- |
|                               |
|       /-----------\           |
|       |           |           |
|       |    ball   |           |
|       |           |           |
|       \-----------/           |
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The problem with this trackball is that your thumb has to be in a wierd 
position if you are planning on using the buttons 
--OR--
You have to angle your hand 45 degrees and grow your pointer finger about
3 inches...

These opinions are my own and everybody is free to disagree, but this is
my personal opinion.  BTW, I own a Logitech which looks something like my
first diagram...

    Mark Cohen   marklc@umbc4.umbc.edu