3 button mouse

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday,  1 March 2005 at  1:24:16 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:01:26 +1030
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 28 February 2005 at 22:52:08 +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
>>> David Scheidt <dmschei at attglobal.net> writes:
>>>> I need a three button mouse.  Just three buttons, no wheel, no bells,
>>>> no whistles.  I can't find one, as everything has a silly wheel.  I'm
>>>> not picky about interface (PS/2, USB, serial, or Bluetooth will work),
>>>> or balls v. optical.  Does anyone still sell these things?
>>>
>>> what do you have against mouse wheels?  they are very useful in X,
>>> and also function as a middle button.
>>
>> Let me count the ways...
>>
>> 1.  Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's
>>     not much use.
>
> The second wheel in Opera and Sylpheed-claws doesn't work, but in KDE
> apps it does.

Getting a browser that works is bad enough without having to limit
yourself to those browsers that support mouse wheels.  I can barely
find any browser that is usable.  I don't want to restrict my choice
further.

>> 2.  Setup is non-trivial.  Every mouse seems to have its own protocol,
>>     and I have a number here which I can't enable.
>
> I guess you don't use cheaper models :) this seem to be easier to
> setup this days.

I use very cheap mice.

Greg
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