On 08/05/2019 10:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:36:12 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So far, 8 months into ownership, I have not needed to clean the trackball, but it is easy to take out.
I've used these for years simply because I like them better, but after a long time (a few years at least) I see little crumbs of the hard rubber-like material the wheel is made of accumulating in the ball socket. I have to take the ball out and bang the mouse on the table to get the pile of rubber crumbs out till the next time.
The Kensington trackball does not have a rubber ball--it seems to be some kind of hard plastic, and as I mentioned, these that I have have been in use for years. But I suppose skin particles get on the ball after a while, so you do have to clean them once in a while. The ball just comes right out, so don't lose it!
To answer a different question raised in this thread--I don't have any way to zoom with the trackball, but scrolling is easy enough. There is a sort of zoom app called KMag, for KDE systems, but I don't find it very helpful.
--doug
I already bought a replacement to use if this one stops working completely. I can't complain about how long it took for something to start falling apart though, it has lasted a long time. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org