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Re:The evolution of the trackball by tetraodonpuffer on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:45PM (#16171097)
have you looked into the kensington trackballs? the slimblade is corded and quite popular among the music producer crowd for example
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Re:The evolution of the trackball by kps on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:59PM (#16171226)
+1 for the Slimblade. I keep a spare on the shelf, along with a spare Kinesis contoured keyboard, to be sure I'll never be caught without — although I've never had either fail. It's a well-behaved standard USB device (including the z-rotation for scrolling) amenable to 'xinput set-button-map'.
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