On 2024-09-24 10:13:00, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 23/09/2024 à 23:51, onefang a écrit :
> > On 2024-09-21 11:06:48, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > I disable the touchpa every time I boot. Othewise, when I type, I accidentally
> > > bruah against it with my palm and wy words end up in strange places.
> > > Touchpads aer useful, but I wish the keyboard would be between me and the pad,
> > > so his wouldn't happen.
> > That reminds me of the computer I was using in an office one day, working
> > on a document with my manager. She stood beside me, and would sometimes
> > point to parts of the document on screen. Problem was that neither of us
> > knew it was a touch screen, so sometimes she would actually touch the
> > screen to point to some part, while I was typing. The end result being
> > that suddenly I was typing in the touched part of the document with no
> > warning, not where I thought I was typing.
> >
>     I also hit the pad and/or the pad buttons by error. But there are also
> errors with the keyboard alone: I never hit intentionnaly the <home> key,
> but it is unfortunately close to the <backspace>, which causes me to type in
> the wrong place.
>
>     Nevertheless I find the touchpad consumes less time and causes less
> distraction than the mouse. I'm so used to it that I even use it when
> editing graphics, an activity for which the mouse is surely more acurate.

I have a Wacom graphics tablet for graphics work. I discovered it's also
great for editing terrain in OpenSim and Second Life. Creating mountains
with the stroke of a pen.

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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.