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From: Bill Gunshannon bill@cs....
Subject: [9fans] Arrow keys
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 08:18:20 GMT

In article <199709101828.UAA00724@foi...>, lucio@pro... (Lucio de Re) writes:
|> > Turning the mouse off during quiet times is an old idea.
|> > One design is to turn it off when a key is struck, and turn
|> > it on again when the mouse is touched.
|> > 
|> At the risk of sounding even sillier than usual, why is this not done 
|> anywhere?  

It is.  Linux outside of the X interface does this precisely.
I guess they did get at least one thing right.

bill

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