On Thursday, September 21, 2006, 19:37:23, Roel Schroeven wrote: > OTOH, touchpads and pointing sticks on laptops don't have scroll wheels. All laptops with touchpads I've seen offer one or more of the following: - scrollwheel emulation by dragging at the edge of touchpad (some touchpads even have a slightly separated area for this, although this is completely a software [driver] setting) - button with up/down keys, which emulates wheel - button, which you hold and drag on the touchpad to emulate wheel Laptops with "joystick" (or whatever that red thingy in the middle of keyboard is called) often (but not always) have a button that makes the joystick behave as a mouse wheel. > They often even don't feature middle mouse buttons, though I have never > understood exactly why. And IIRC nowadays more laptops are sold than > desktops. I've yet to see a laptop with middle button, too. > Of course, people can just attach a proper mouse to their laptop if/when > they use it for serious graphical work. Which is a good idea anyway; a > touchpad is way too imprecise. If your laptop has built-in blutooth adapter, I suggest you get a blutooth mouse, this way you'll be able to use it without having to attach it to anything. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > It's better to retire too soon than too late. -- Mosher's Law _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
