Re: [LAU] Linux Laptops?

Focus on mouse with click to raise! Allows you to read stuff from a window
while
typing into the mostly hidden window behind it.
Immanuel

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Dominic Sacré <dominic.sacre@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 03:06:48 Ken Restivo wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:29:52PM -1000, david wrote:
> > > Decades ago, at a previous employment, I borrowed a Thinkpad laptop
> > > to take notes at a meeting. It had the IBM Trackpoint in the
> > > keyboard. I used the laptop for about 45 minutes, went back to my
> > > desktop machine (also an IBM, but no Trackpoint in the keyboard) -
> > > and found my fingers automatically reaching for the Trackpoint.
> > > They are incredibly efficient. Sorry you didn't like it.
> >
> > I guess some people actually do like it.
> >
> > ThinkPad + focus_on_mouse + typing anything with a 'g' or 'h' in it
> > == TROUBLE.
>
> I use a Thinkpad with TrackPoint and focus-follows-mouse every day, and
> I really got used to it. These nipples come in different shapes and
> sizes. I found that the small, convex ones are much less prone to
> accidental cursor movement than the larger, flat ones which seem to be
> installed by default these days.
>
> Incidentally, at work I sometimes use a Thinkpad which has both
> TrackPoint and touchpad. The touchpad is disabled in my own user
> account, but not in the login screen. I can't count the number of times
> I inadvertently rested my hand on the touchpad, causing the password
> field to lose focus while typing...
>
>
> Dominic
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