Proven wireless mouse for Linux ?

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sat Feb 28 18:32:22 UTC 2004


On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> I know the logitechs I have dealth with allow all 3 mouse buttons to be
> held at the same time and work great.  I have also found logitech wired
> keyboards are among the keyboards that allow the most keys at a time.
> remember the keyboard just send key down, key up events (And probably
> something for key repeat but that might be elsewhere in the keyboard
> hardware).  Being wireless doesn't seem to affect the behaviour at all
> at least on the logitech hardware.

Ok. The chording etc issue is due to the possibility of key (or mouse)
break events to get lost when the wireless link is noised (f.ex. by a
narby vacuum cleaner or a/c). This can end you up with the equivalent of
a DEL key held down for while and other similar horrors. The wireless
protocols have error checking in them to avoid this. One of the cheap ways
is to throw out key chords that seem illegal (to Windows users at least).
Thus my question.

Now I want to go all the way, wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse
;-) I think I saw it somewhere in a shop. Wireless optical mice probably
eat batteries for lunch (that bright light eats power!) but I'll try
anyway.

thanks,
Peter
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