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From: Mike Easter on 11 Jun 2010 08:54 RayLopez99 wrote: > D.S.L switched my > mouse buttons--left is now right. Riiiggghhht. DSL took a mind of its own. There is such a thing as switching a mouse to be left-handed. In my Mint, I do it with a graphical tool in the Control panel under Mouse -- but I don't know how to do it with a commandline; and even tho' I have a DSL running over yonder, I can't see a tool to flip the mouse handedness with it. If I search the net for a command, I see: xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" > All I did was run a program that > speeds up the mouse buttons, I don't know what the term 'speeds up the mouse buttons' means or what you were trying to do. Perhaps you were trying to change the cursor movement acceleration. I also don't know a commandline for that, because again I would use a graphical tool. Searching around, I see a - xset m - command, such as xset m 5 1 .... which means that 5 is the acceleration and 1 is the threshhold. http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xfree/mouse_speed_in_x/ Setting the mouse speed in X This business about you using a distro whose popularity/usage is so low that it doesn't even show up in the distrowatch 'hit list' of the top 100 distros, and whose name doesn't appear in a distrowatch search tool which lists over 300 popular distros means that when you are talking to people who might be able to help with linux questions, hardly any of them are using DSL on a 'regular basis'. DSL is a niche distro/tool which is used for unusual purposes rather than 'everyday activities' and the last version was released 2 years ago. Many of us use distros which have much greater flexibility and choices and tools and application availabilities than DSL. It seems that you are intentionally trying to 'dis' linux by using hardware which you don't care enough about to find out what it is or to improve its ram condition -- and which forces you into using a tiny linux specialty distro which is very limited in its available applications and graphical tools. -- Mike Easter
From: Mike Easter on 30 Jun 2010 16:53
Posted more sensibly to one newsgroup RayLopez99 wrote: > "What's >> I am using Puppy Linux 4.3.1 on a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. Dual boot >> with w2k. It has a 233 PII,160mb ram,4gb drive(3gb/1gb partitions). I used >> DSL before on it but puppy is much better-you should check it out. There >> are a lot more updated apps available for it than DSL. > OK, thanks for that tip. Why version 4.3.1? Is this version made for > older machines, or can I download the latest Puppy distro? You're the guy - Ray - who doesn't know/care anything about what his hardware is, but asks a lot of questions anyway. You - Max - can use either one - also maybe Ray - depending on what your hardware really is - and/but 4.x series (and other earliers) has/have retro versions^1. The similarities and differences are spelled out in such as the wiki^2 for puppy. 5 is based on Ub. 4.x isn't. There is a tutorial for 4.3. There are a lot of puppies and forks and redirections. ^2 http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage Download Latest Puppy ABOUT PUPPY USING PUPPY SOFTWARE SEARCH HYPERLINKS WIKI INFO Frequently Asked Questions GRAPHICS � NEWS � FORUM Puppy 5.0.1 Puppy 5 review Quirky 1.2 ^1 Is there a Puppy for an old notebook with 64 MB of RAM? http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55093 Worst case, drop back to 1.08 - -- Mike Easter |