Simultaneous Left/right Dual Mice Config Option, Please!

I do have two usb mouse connected to  my computer.  I want to use them in combination with a virtual keyboard as the main input method in my computer. They would control the same on screen pointer. While trying to configure my system to do that (now I am running Linux Mint Debian Edition) The main difficulty I have found  is that the GUI does not give the option to configure each mouse individually. So I end up with two right mice or two left mice. 

The index finger is the best one for clicking. But with two left or two right mice I am forced to click with my index finger on one mouse and with the middle finger on the other. Either that  or held one mouse in an awkward position to be able to click with the index finger on it. To be clicking one way with one hand and another way with the other is uncomfortable and prevents you from from clicking in a relaxed manner. Besides, after 10 minutes of holding the mouse in an awkward manner to click with your index finger, your hand and wrist will start to hurt. For a heavy clicker, sooner or latter, this may lead to injury. So I need to configure one mouse as left mouse and the other as a right mouse.

How can I do that, and save this configuration so that it it will be permanent?

Would this be useful, you may ask? Well, just a few minutes ago I was surfing Eight (8) Manual Traffic Exchanges at the time, each one in its own tab. Using both hands to move and click on the pointer allows me to do it faster; way faster. Plus the virtual keyboard is useful for the occasional typing of passwords, catcha codes or tidbits of info while surfing. Much better than having to switch from the mice to the physical keyboard and back, time and time again.

I am not the only one who spend time surfing Traffic Exchanges. There are thousands of Traffic Exchanges and millions of users who spend most of their online time (from one to 24 hours a day) surfing Traffic Exchanges and similar sites.  Anything that will help us to surf faster and easier, while protecting our  hand/wrists from related injuries, will be welcome.. and supported.

The two mice and virtual keyboard combination would be great for Traffic Exchange users, provided that a simple way is provided to configure one mouse as a left mouse and the other as a right mouse. And just remember we, Most Traffic Exchange users, are not geeks, gurus or hackers willing to spent our time hacking away at our system to get it to behave as we want... today... to have to do the same thing tomorrow. We want a simple config option/program that will allow us to set the two mice, left and right behavior, use it, and never have to worry about again.

 It is about time the Graphical User Interface designers  [I am talking about you guys at Gnome, Kde, Xface, XORG, etc, etc] include this simple config option in their GUIs... And if they wont, or while they finality decide to do it, would  an individual programmer please stand up and do this  for us? 

Thank you!

Back to SalineOS 1.6 Debian Based OS

Today I erased, once again!, my hard disk and installed SalineOS 1.6, Debian stable based Distro into it.  My experiment dual booting Siduction, (Debian unstable based distro) and ChromiumOS was interesting, yet I found some difficulties.

With Siduction, the main problem is that Siduction is based on KDE and shuns away from Gnome, yet most of the applications I usually used are Gnome based.  Furthermore Siduction is based on Sid, the unstable branch of Debian, so you are bound to found bugs here and there.  A program that was working fine yesterday, after the last update may become unstable, and viceversa.  Not a nice thing to have when you are WORKING on the computer, not just playing with it.

Also, in Siduction you are encourage to use a text based approach to update your system and install new software. And update your system at least once a week is a thing you must do because, being Sid based, the software repositories change daily, so if you don't update your system daily, or at least weekly, soon  you will find your system so outdated that a distribution update would become just like a brand new installation, needing to download hundredS of megabytes of software at once.

Anyhow, the procedure to install new software and do a system update under Siductiion require you to:

1.  press CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch to a text mode terminal, then

2. Log in as root, then

3. type init 3 and press ENTER to stop all Xwindows programs running, then

4. do an apt-get update to update the list of available software from the repositories, and then

5. Do a apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the system, then

6. Do a apt-get clean the do a final clean up after the upgrade, and then

7. type init 5 && exit to go back to a log in screen.

Finally cross your fingers hoping that the upgrade from the unstable repositories will not brake anything    important in your system.

This procedure, substituting apt-get dist-upgrade with apt-get install "softwarename" is the recommended way to to install new software.

For a while I do it this way but them I fell to the temptation of installing a graphical Software Manager and startted installing things while in graphical mode and slowly but surely bugs started to creep in. Even more as many of my favorite applications are Gnome Based, as I installed more of them, more of more of Gnome gotl get into a system optimized to run the KDE Environment.

After a while it was no longer fun to run Siduction.

With ChromiumOS the problem is that this Operating System is develop and optimized to run on some specific computers ( the Chromebooks).  ChromeOS have some additions to make it even easier, on a Chromebook, but those extensions are not part of ChromiumOS.  So the hexxeh built of ChromiumOS I installed in my computer would not upgrade automatically.  Even worse the locally installed Media Player would not work and the boot up time was almost two minutes.

Even with those limitations ChromiumOS was running quite well on my PC.  Yet to update it I had to do a completely new installed, and as I had a dual boot system it was kind of cumbersome. First having to resintall ChromiumOS into the entire hard disk, then reducing one partition and then reinstalling Siduction into the newly created empty space and them hoping that everything will work ok. My computer I put it together a few years ago and there is some  inherent instability on it, so I don't want to push it too much.

I need my PC  for my daily online activities and cannot afford to buy another one for the time being.  So I decided to stop to experiment dual booting ChromiumOS and cutting edge Siduction, Debian Ustable based, OS.

How I did it, to begin with,is explain on a previus post.  If you have a spare computer laying around, play with it.  If ChromiumOS runs well in it, and the Media Player functions without problems,you will have    an ideal system to work, play and live online.

For Now I am back to SalineOS a Debian Stable Based distro. It functions great on my P, has rock solid stability, and if the urge to test the latest ChromiumOS built , or any other distro, comes around, there is always VIrtualBox to give it a try.

TeamDRH has released the beta version of their Android 4.03 ROM for the Viewsonic GTablet.  You can find it at http://teamdrh.com/archives/development-news-archive/16-the3dman

I found it a few days ago and installed it right away. It is still beta.  Some things don't work, there are some crashes and slow downs, but to have the real Chrome Browser with sync and all in my Gtablet is kind of neat.

I do a lot of traffic exchanges surfing to earn credits to promote my affiliate links and stuff.  My desktop, now dual booting between Sedition, a Debian Sid based distro,  and ChromiunOS (from hexxeh.net) is a lot faster and more stable than the Gtab, but consumes a whole lot more of electricity.  When you are trying to cut expenses, that one I would like to cut down. So I hope that the oficial release of teamDRH will have all the bugs squashed, and everything will run just perfect.  With ChromeOS in there I might be able to move most of my TE surfing to the tablet, now that would be cool!