You're back on X.6.8.  I'm thinking of moving 
back to X.6.7. Since going to X.6.8 I've had a 
number of instances where my mouse has stopped 
working. I can reactivate it by unplugging it 
then plugging it back in or by doing a click with 
the trackpad.

I'm keeping a close watch on it to see whether a 
particular combination of apps is involved.

At 11:02 PM +0200 18/8/11, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:
>On 16.08.2011, at 02:26, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>  > Track pad gestures?>
>  > I've turned most of them off because:
>  >
>>  (a) I can't be bothered remembering them.
>
>They can be customized so remembering is not difficult.

Clearly, Þorvarður, you're either not old enough 
or you have a more extendable set of genes that I 
have!  :)

>If there were more gestures (like in Lion) I 
>would use the trackpad with Exposé & Spaces.

I don't use either. No usefulness for me.

>  > (c) I'd much rather use a practical mouse -- 
>my $15 optical two button+wheel 
>USB-with-retractable-tail mini-mouse. Spot on 
>performance, so light I can move it with a 
>finger tip, accurate, immediate response.
>>
>>  AND its battery never runs out because it doesn't have one!
>
>The trick is to use *both* mouse and the 
>trackpad (on MacBooks.) I bought a no-name mouse 
>produced in China last year for 6 Euro and 
>that's the best mouse I have ever used!!!  It 
>has three years guarantee and inside the package 
>there is an address in the U.S.A. to which I am 
>supposed to send the mouse in case it has to be 
>repaired. Considering the fact that it only cost 
>6 Euro the guarantee and the address in the 
>U.S.A. is a real joke. :-)

When you say "produced in China " you mean, of 
course, just like your Mac! (Or did they find an 
even cheaper place?)  :)  My mouse, too, is made 
in China and it's called "Rock". A website is 
offered: "rockrock.com.au".Just looked it up -- 
they are an Australian importer. 
http://rockrock.com.au/product/product.php?en=en&class1=7&class2=8&class3=27 
-- mine's the red one -- easier to see on the 
desk and thus less likely to be left behind!  :)

But as you say -- use both. I do to a tiny 
extent. Scrolling in Firefox, for example.

I've been using Firefox for some years now -- but 
they've just moved to v.4 and proudly boast that 
they've got an "all new" interface. Dickheads! 
Don't they realize that's a disincentive? In 
fact, I tried v.4 and found a couple of elements 
in the interface that I didn't like so I reverted 
to v.3.x.x which they continue to update, by the 
wayl

Cheers, geoff