Re: [ccp4bb]: joystick or dial for linux?

[Timm Maier <tmaier@chemie.fu-berlin.de>]

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Dear Richard,
finally I got my dials working with the XIG drivers also on SuSe
distributions. There is definitely "native" dial support in this driver. I
am also quite happy with dial sensitivity etc. In my experience a mouse
can hardly ever replace the dials: To have simultaneous control on zoom,
slab, X Y Z trans and your Lego_side command is hard to realize with any
kind of mouse. Only having both, dials and mouse, gives me the comfort and
pleasure I'm used to from the SGI's. And - again, I'm sorry - roughly 120$
for a commercial X server and 150$ for used dials from a hardware reseller
is clearly less than what some people spent on professional graphics
solution. This solution is widely applicable - to all Linux systems
available and used this days.

Best regards

Timm
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                 TIMM MAIER
                           Proteinkristallographie
                           Institut fuer Kristallographie
                           Takustr.6
                           14195 Berlin

                           tmaier@chemie.fu-berlin.de
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>
> Seems like a closer and more widely available replacement
> for dials would be a wheel mouse. My Logitech optical
> mouse scroll wheel does work with some enabled
> Linux applications (like xterm).
>
>    Richard Gillilan
>    MacCHESS, Cornell
>
> > Danny G Smith wrote:
> > I know that there is no native support for dial boxes under linux, but
> > is anyone using a joystick as a replacement, and if so which one?
> >
> > --
> > thanks,
> > Danny G Smith