Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

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On 02/02/2014 12:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 6:04 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 3rd gen is wireless, programmable buttons, and now called 'trackball'.
>>
>>    http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-trackball-m570
>>
>> once you try one you will never go back to regular 'move around'
>> mouse. i have converted at least 10 people to them.
>
> Primitive trackballs actually predate mice. I used a home-made one in
> the Cambridge Computer Lab in 1971. I also used commercial ones on
> Vector General graphics stations in the mid-70's. AFAIK the first
> mouse was born when someone (Douglas Englebart?) turned a trackball
> upside down.

i do not know that he turned a trackball upside down, but he is
credited for a mouse before it had a ball;

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29

track balls are at;

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball

which was mentioned in thread to your post;

}> Message-ID: <1376920807.3853.4.camel at dusty>
}> Subject: Mouse button debouncing
}> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
}> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
}> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:00:07 +0100


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