More than one (usually two) mice is a common request to Just Work (tm) on laptops. Many do not like laptop's mice and so use an external mouse (as well). regards On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 20:56, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:29:22PM -0700, Jim Gettys was heard to remark: > > > ServerLayout - easily defaulted to 1 mouse, 1 keyboard, 1 screen > > > > Yup. But multiple mice, keyboards and screens should "do the right > > thing too, IMHO. Certainly on Digital UNIX, if you plugged in another > > screen, it "just worked" out of the box. I see no reason to settle > > for less (we never dealt with multiple keyboards and mice, since they > > more or less never happened in those days). > > Actually, it happened more in those days than these days. In those > days, a unix workstation cost $20K and the salesmen always figured > if they could attach 2 or 3 mice, 2 or 3 keyboards, 2 or 3 monitors, > (w/ 50 foot cables) then the cost per user would be $20K / (2 or 3). > Now that unix pc's are cheap, this issue doesn't come up. > > --linas > > > -- > pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <linas linas org> > PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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