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From: John Lucas <jlucas@uvi.edu>
Subject: Re: 3 button mice for X11
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Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> Jamie Bowden (bowden@cs.odu.edu) wrote:
> : On 27 May 1996, John W. Carbone wrote:
> 
> : > Would someone please recommend a 3 button mouse that is NOT
> : > specifically designed for right handed people?
> 
> : In your window manager rescource file, you assign what button does what,
> : making 'left' and 'right' handed mean nothing as far as mice are
> : concerned.
> 
> But it's darned hard to make the plastic curve the other way by editing X11
> config files...   ;)
> 

I believe Logitech makes left-handed mice (MouseMan?), I have a right-handed one at home.

At work, I am using an *old* Logitech "HiREZ" busmouse that is symetrical (therefore works well
both right and left-handed). It has sharp rather than smoothed edges, but I have been using it
(or one like it) for years now. The old C7 and C9 mice aren't made anymore, however.

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