Had been using a Logitech M510 wireless mouse. If I pick it up and put it down on the mouse pad, it will be fine for a while. Then, the cursor stops following the mouse. I tried cleaning it, tried a different mouse pad, no change. I tried a brand new M510 with the same results. Even tried a third new one with the same reaction. It’s quite annoying.
I bought a Razor, forget the model, worked wonderfully! For a few months. Then, the wheel quit. Threw it away. Seemed flimsy. Now, I’m back to the Logitech.
Looking at a SteelSeries Rival. Anyone have any experience with it?
Anyone recommend anything else?
I use three mice myself, a Logitech Revolution MX which is no longer for sale (it’s great), a Logitech Performance Mouse MX and an Apple Magic Mouse.
Performance costs a ton but it’s very, very solid. Magic Mouse is amazing for web browsing but it’s not a “let’s click all the time” kind of mouse, it’s very touch thingy. Revolution MX was the best but you can no longer get it, built like a brick, metal rolls… it’s amazing.
It was so good they must’ve stopped making it since they knew it just doesn’t break
On 2014-10-08, montana suse user <montana_suse_user@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Looking at a SteelSeries Rival. Anyone have any experience with it?
> Anyone recommend anything else?
I’d recommend a mouse which is 100% configurable without having to install Windows. IIRC some of the SteelSeries mice
come with on-mouse hardware based configuration (to change sensitivity etc…) which I regard as a good thing.
About two decades ago, I switched to trackballs. I use the Logitech
marble plus or similar name, on cable. I just have two, both working.
The first one I bought on 1998.
Prior to that, I bought them for clients. People that were using a
computer on a mechanics room or industrial area, with greasy hands. They
worked all the time. Pretty expensive, I could not afford one myself then.
True, you need get used to trackballs.
This one does not use wheels at all: the optics detect dark points on
the ball surface. Nowdays there are mice that do similarly: they can
detect the table or paper grain. No ball.
I do not trust/like wireless mice. They (may) eat batteries,
cause/receive interference, subject to eavesdropping…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On Wed 08 Oct 2014 10:06:01 AM CDT, montana suse user wrote:
Had been using a Logitech M510 wireless mouse. If I pick it up and put
it down on the mouse pad, it will be fine for a while. Then, the cursor
stops following the mouse. I tried cleaning it, tried a different mouse
pad, no change. I tried a brand new M510 with the same results. Even
tried a third new one with the same reaction. It’s quite annoying.
I bought a Razor, forget the model, worked wonderfully! For a few
months. Then, the wheel quit. Threw it away. Seemed flimsy. Now, I’m
back to the Logitech.
Looking at a SteelSeries Rival. Anyone have any experience with it?
Anyone recommend anything else?
Bart
Hi
I have the M325’s works well in linux, add the solar package for
additional features (pairing/unpairing, battery status ectc).
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It works pretty well. The one thing I don’t like, is that the scroll wheel is too sensitive. If I could turn it off and just use it as a middle button, I would probably prefer that.
It uses a single AA battery. If I hover my mouse over the KDE tray power icon, it says that the battery is 70%. It has been 70% since I bought the mouse several months ago (I’m using the battery that came with the mouse).
I’ve been using an M325 for two years now on my laptop (battery shows 90%).
On my desktop (the 70% battery mouse), I originally plugged the wireless receiver into a USB port at the back of the computer tower. Behavior was a bit erratic. So I instead plugged into one of the two front USB connectors, and it has been fine there.
(More than you ever wanted to know about an M325).
DUH! I guess you could call the response I’m getting erratic. I also had the receiver plugged into the back of the computer. So I moved it to the front. Seems better. I’ll have to use it for a while to see. That’ll be a lot cheaper then a new mouse!
On 2014-10-09 15:46, nrickert wrote:
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> montana_suse_user;2668539 Wrote:
>> I also had the receiver plugged into the back of the computer. So I
>> moved it to the front. Seems better.
>
> I think it is all of that metal case shielding some of the rf
> transmissions. There’s a more direct path for the front connector.
Get a usb_male-cable-usb_female connector, and put it anywhere you get
better transmission, and thus free the front connector.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Yes, that would probably work. However, I’m happy with it in the front connector. I rarely use more than one at a time.
The front connector is USB2. All but two of the rear connectors are USB3. When I moved the receiver, that freed a USB2 rear connector. So I moved the UPS cable to that (from a USB3 connector). I now have an additional free USB3 connector. In my case, it is fairly easy to get at the rear connectors.
On 2014-10-09 18:06, nrickert wrote:
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> robin_listas;2668566 Wrote:
>> Get a usb_male-cable-usb_female connector, and put it anywhere you get
>> better transmission, and thus free the front connector.
>
> Yes, that would probably work. However, I’m happy with it in the front
> connector. I rarely use more than one at a time.
>
> The front connector is USB2. All but two of the rear connectors are
> USB3. When I moved the receiver, that freed a USB2 rear connector. So
> I moved the UPS cable to that (from a USB3 connector). I now have an
> additional free USB3 connector. In my case, it is fairly easy to get at
> the rear connectors.
My box has a lot of connectors on the rear, and just two on the front,
which I use for sticks I plug while seated, or devices such as the phone.
But I do not have any usb 3.
Each box is different.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Well, I’m all fixed up! Moving the mouse receiver to the front panel certainly did the trick. There are four USB2 ports on the front of my case, so I have plenty. That said, I really don’t care too much for the feel of the Logitech mouse, so I purchased a Steelseries Rival. It’s a corded mouse and it fits my hand very well. Of course they don’t provide any of the drivers for Linux, so I can’t set the color of the logo to one of several hundred (ohhhh), but the side buttons are way up out of the way, the switches work really well, the button on the top sets cursor speed to fast or slow, so all in all it does everything I need.
I also moved to a Unicomp keyboard. Can’t tell you how happy I am with it! I even ordered a set of Tux keytops to replace those ugly flying squares down near the space bar. Feels like old times!
My wife doesn’t like it though, claims the clickity-clack is too noisy.
> My wife doesn’t like it though, claims the clickity-clack is too noisy.
I have a mechanical keyboard, which I bought it less than a year ago;
the previous one, membrane type, died. Unnatural causes: it drowned in a
few drops of water. A friend that comes now and then thinks that I bang
the keyboard. I don’t. This particular model was reported as noisy in
the shop web page commentaries… He does not believe me.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
