[165] in NetBSD-Development
Re: 3-button serial port mouse on Lola
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu Oct 13 13:08:15 1994
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 13:07:43 +0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Charles_Frankston@frankston.com
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Charles_Frankston@frankston.com's message of Wed, 12 Oct 1994 23:10 -0400,
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From: Charles_Frankston@frankston.com
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 23:10 -0400
Therefore, if you want a 3-button mouse, you'll have to lose a valuable COM
port (and associated interrupt).
3-button mice are ergonomic losers anyway.
Actually, the mice that come with the RS/6000 are 3 button mice with a
PS/2 plug, and if you plug them into a Linux box running X, XFree86
*does* recognize it and will do the right thing with the middle button.
I suspect the 2-button (or really 1 button, the way Microsoft Windows
uses their mouse interface) vs. 3-button mice is much like the click to
focus vs. point to focus question. It's a religious issue, with people
lining up on both sides of the issue.
Personally, I *like* have the extra button, since it means I can do
everything I want to do with a window *and* be able to disable the title
bar, which I dispise since it (a) takes up extra screen real estate, and
(b) it's a pain to manuever the mouse to precisely the right spot on the
title bar to iconify a window. I'll take alt-click middle button-drag
any day....
- Ted
