Left handed cursor

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu Jan 10 12:41:39 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:24:49PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 10:51, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I use a mouse with my left hand too... I know it is to some, but to me, 
> using my middle finger instead of my index finger has never been an issue. 
> Thankfully, I have the standard five fingers on my left hand and I haven''t 
> so far found any one of them as being of any particular preference. 
> >
> > This thread gives me an opportunity to ask the following questions that 
> have been on my mind for a while: What advantage does a lefty somehow miss 
> when using a "right handed" mouse and pointer? Is this often debated? 
> 
> As a lefty, I used to have my mice on the left, but I use the normal
> fingers -- I never saw any need to reverse the buttons. It's just
> confusing to me. Due to some slight RSI and more recently shoulder
> problems with my left hand, a decade and a half ago, I switched to
> right-handed mousing, to get my underused right arm to do a bit more
> work and spare my overused left a little.
> 
I'm right handed and did the opposite some years ago! :-)  I use my
right handed track ball with my left hand.

-- 
Chris Green




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