Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Or a cordless mouse...  The usual wireless ones are a pain, you have
>> to keep on replacing or recharging batteries, and resyncing hardware
>> (the transmitter and receiver pair).

Ed Greshko:
> Not sure what you mean by the "usual wireless ones". 

Usual, in the type of design.  A receiver plugged into the computer, a
battery powered transmitter in the mouse.

With mine, and with other people I know, it became necessary to press
the resync buttons, on receiver and transmitter, every now and then, to
pair the two together.  Perhaps the receiver doesn't store the
information, and only holds it while it receives power from the
computer?  Some people leave there's on, others turn their computer's
power off, or the BIOS turns the port's power off when shut down.

I hear the same stories about people continually needing to re-associate
their bluetooth hardware.

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