Quick question....

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:08:28AM -0800, Rick Stockton wrote:
> Which mouse would you guys recommend I buy- for the purpose of
> testing my patches for "support of more buttons" in Qt and KDE?
> price limit around $100. WIRED is OK (and expected; few "gamer" come
> wireless).

if you're just looking at testing patches, just use a uinput device. it'll
look the same as a physical device to X but be significantly cheaper ;)

Cheers,
  Peter
> 
> I already have tilt-wheel plus two thumb buttons (Including the
> scroll events, that's Button1 through Button9). So obviously, I'm
> looking for at least a few more than this
> I need those "buttons" em to come into Kernel, evdev, and X11 as
> genuine Button events-- not as "mystery meat" to be interpreted and
> translated into keystrokes by some Windoze program.
> 
> Thanks in advance.