[health.rsi] touchpad

[wispfox]

I am _far_ too pleased by the ergononic touchpad that jasra found for me. If nothing else, it does all of what it's supposed to do without any additional drivers needed, under Linux. This is amazing and unexpected. :)

Only thing I can't seem to do with it that I can with other pointing devices is the middle mouse click. But, since I can tell linux to treat the num pad as the pointing device, I have another method of doing that which does not involve clicking. As clicking is evil right now, and is about the only thing which near immediately makes my wrists/arms sad. Everything else is mostly ok, if I don't overdo it. Finally.

Now, just to not be overly excited about this state of affairs, and continue to avoid overdoing it at the same time as first getting strength back, then increasing it.

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[(Anonymous)]

I've used the Cirque SmartCat. Available in USB and PS/2 versions.
It has left/right mouse buttons and no drivers for linux. It would require
chord-middle to do 3 button mouse work; which I think most linux XF86's do.

Its physically a little larger than yours appeared and lives nicely in my
lap with my keyboard.

Biggest annoyance with it is that a tap on the pad is equal to a mouse click.
Which can be nice or not nice depending on what it makes you do wrong.

FWIW...

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Oooh! Sweet. I'll consider this for the next time mine swells up. Thanks!

I just alternate between a glide point, a trackball, and a mouse, and swap hands. That seems to keep it at bay. Except for during those long projects when I'm typing furiously for ten hours a day...

[jasra]

That was very happy making that it _just_ worked.