<story><title>A new wave of Linux applications</title><url>https://tuxphones.com/convergent-linux-phone-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>I use the acme text editor &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)&lt;/a&gt; for work every day. It makes heavy use of mouse chords, so I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; a scrollwheel which doesn&amp;#x27;t get in the way of the buttons. I&amp;#x27;ve got a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball which works pretty well, but at the end of the day an old Logitech PS&amp;#x2F;2 mouse plugged into a converter is my go-to.</text></item><item><author>ugjka</author><text>Why do you use a mouse without a scrollwheel?</text></item><item><author>floren</author><text>These applications look really pretty and all, but for my selfish purposes, I just really want real goddamn scrollbars back. I use a mouse that doesn&amp;#x27;t have a scroll wheel, but for the life of me I&amp;#x27;ve been unable to figure out how to make applications like Firefox just give me a real scroll bar on the side of the window that&amp;#x27;s thick enough to grab without fiddly pixel-hunting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tormeh</author><text>Depends by what you mean by &amp;quot;real buttons&amp;quot; but my first thought was that 99% of gaming mice will have at least 3 buttons and a scrollwheel. Often it&amp;#x27;s closer to 10 buttons.&lt;p&gt;This one has 20 buttons (including 3 big ones and a scrollwheel): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.logitechg.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;gaming-mice&amp;#x2F;g600-mmo-gaming-mouse.910-002864.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.logitechg.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;gaming-mice&amp;#x2F;g600-mm...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A new wave of Linux applications</title><url>https://tuxphones.com/convergent-linux-phone-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>I use the acme text editor &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)&lt;/a&gt; for work every day. It makes heavy use of mouse chords, so I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; a scrollwheel which doesn&amp;#x27;t get in the way of the buttons. I&amp;#x27;ve got a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball which works pretty well, but at the end of the day an old Logitech PS&amp;#x2F;2 mouse plugged into a converter is my go-to.</text></item><item><author>ugjka</author><text>Why do you use a mouse without a scrollwheel?</text></item><item><author>floren</author><text>These applications look really pretty and all, but for my selfish purposes, I just really want real goddamn scrollbars back. I use a mouse that doesn&amp;#x27;t have a scroll wheel, but for the life of me I&amp;#x27;ve been unable to figure out how to make applications like Firefox just give me a real scroll bar on the side of the window that&amp;#x27;s thick enough to grab without fiddly pixel-hunting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>l30n4da5</author><text>&amp;gt; I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons and a scrollwheel which doesn&amp;#x27;t get in the way of the buttons&lt;p&gt;does a gaming mouse work?  I&amp;#x27;m currently using a $10 gaming mouse that has 4 buttons and a scroll wheel.  Two of them are thumb-buttons that function very well and are not in the way at all.</text></comment>