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!
Well, well, well! I just installed the XFCE Desktop environment under Linux Mint Debian Edition, and found out that under Settings >>mouse the system recognized my two mice and allowed me to configure each one individually! Just as I wanted. So I went ahead and configure one as left and the other as right mouse.
ReplyDeleteI also installed a virtual keyboard, florence. I am using my two mice and the virtual keyboard to type this. Not as fast as with the physical keyboard, but not too slow either.
Now the problem is that this keyboard only becomes available after I log into Xfce. It is not available during boot up. So I still need the physical keyboard to log into the system. Come on guys! Configure a system that can be run efficiently from boot up to shutdown, under all circumstances using just one,or preferably two mice: one configure as left and the other as right.
It can be done. We are almost there. The challenge is to run the computer from login to shutdown with two mice, one left, another right and no physical keyboard attached to the system.
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i only use 1 mice atm
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