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Jun '05
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by Frank Spychalski filed under Computer
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Yesterday evening I finally managed to get the two remaining buttons of my Logitech MX518 (btw: great mouse, best one I ever owned) to work under X. I’m not gonna repeat the instructions here, this and this are pretty good howtos. The second one is a much better read, I’d like to see more like this in a howto 
Some kind of console-based text editor. There are a variety of these - pick the one you find least hateful. The commonest are Ye Dreaded vi and EMACS. (NB. I am told that thinking of EMACS as just an editor is (a) missing the point, and (b) tantamount to heresy. If you wish to go there, ask someone else.)
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X usually comes with a mangrove swamp of interconnecting compatibility symlinks; it’s a mess. Therefore if you search for this file you may find it apparently in about 47 different places. The chances are good that 37 of these are the same file via different chains of symlinks, and the other 10 are obsolete files which haven’t been used for anything sensible since some time last century but are still shipped either to be on the safe side, or because nobody has yet organised a cleanup.
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June 24th, 2005 at 17:07
OMG! You’re right about that second how-to. What a crack-up!
So what’s so great about this mouse? For US$50, it ought to be awesome, IMO.
Jim
June 24th, 2005 at 19:05
It fits my hand perfectly, it’s very precise, the other optical mouse (Logitech Mouse Man Optical) has problems with the surface of my desk (black, shiny), the mouse wheel no longer makes the annoying sound when you use it, all just minor things but they add up. The only negative point so far is, the mouse has two buttons above and below the mousewheel which control the sensitivity which I think is a pretty useless feature (I’m not a gamer) and I would like to use these buttons for something else, but I think that’s not possible…