[haiku-development] Re: Mouse <-> touchpad settings woes

  • From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:51:08 -0500

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I see. Without going into detail (who really cares about Windows?) the
> above still wouldn't help if you switch between the touchpad and a
> number of connected deviced like mouse, graphics tablet and... let's
> say you have another knobbly-pointy-thingy in your keyboard like HP
> (used to?) have?

My ThinkPad Z60m has that knobbly thing too, called a TrackPoint,
though I don't really use it myself (I use the touch pad.) I think
most ThinkPads include it as a distinguishing feature (and many of the
ThinkPad faithful may prefer it over the touch pad.) I am not sure how
it is exposed to the operating system, maybe just as a PS/2 or USB
mouse.

So anyhow there could be potentially a lot of mouse input devices on
one machine. I have three when I plug in a USB mouse on this ThinkPad.
In general I think the separate settings for each device are a good
idea.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan

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