Does anyone here have any experience of using a wireless keyboard with trackball built in with Linux?
E.g. something like:-
http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?referer=froogle&products_id=17...
I guess it will probably "just work" but I'd like to be sure there aren't any odd issues before I buy one. It's for a multimedia (well more of a photo display) box to go with the big new TV.
2009/1/16 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
Does anyone here have any experience of using a wireless keyboard with trackball built in with Linux?
E.g. something like:-
http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?referer=froogle&products_id=17...
I guess it will probably "just work" but I'd like to be sure there aren't any odd issues before I buy one. It's for a multimedia (well more of a photo display) box to go with the big new TV.
Presumably the receive connects as a normal keyboard, so it should just be detected that way.
I have an IR wireless keyboard that plugs into the PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse and that Just Works.
Chris G wrote:
Does anyone here have any experience of using a wireless keyboard with trackball built in with Linux?
E.g. something like:-
http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?referer=froogle&products_id=1789I guess it will probably "just work" but I'd like to be sure there aren't any odd issues before I buy one. It's for a multimedia (well more of a photo display) box to go with the big new TV.
Hi,
I've got a Logitech DiNovo Edge wireless keyboard, which has a touch pad instead of a ball, but it works perfectly with Linux. Battery life seems very good as well, I can't remember the last time I charged it up! :-)
It is a Bluetooth keyboard, but the dongle it comes with presents it to the PC as a standard HID device.
HTH
Chris
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 09:30:03AM +0000, Chris Glover wrote:
Chris G wrote:
Does anyone here have any experience of using a wireless keyboard with trackball built in with Linux?
E.g. something like:-
http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?referer=froogle&products_id=1789I guess it will probably "just work" but I'd like to be sure there aren't any odd issues before I buy one. It's for a multimedia (well more of a photo display) box to go with the big new TV.
Hi,
I've got a Logitech DiNovo Edge wireless keyboard, which has a touch pad instead of a ball, but it works perfectly with Linux. Battery life seems very good as well, I can't remember the last time I charged it up! :-)
It is a Bluetooth keyboard, but the dongle it comes with presents it to the PC as a standard HID device.
OK, thanks, it would seem then that such keyboards work OK with Linux.
I don't like touch pads personally, I'm going to go for one with a trackball as that's what I use on my desktop machine anyway (a separate trackball that is).
I have the new Linux box working at full 1920x1080 on the TV now, it's excellent and is perfect for showing pictures from Digikam.
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