LinuxLinks Cedega Review >> printer friendly

[Stephen Burke]

One solution would be to just select the text of the article, copy it 
into the text editor/word processor of your choice, and print from 
there. A nice thing about linux is that after you select what you want 
in the browser (or any other) window, you can just go to where you want 
to paste it and do that by simply clicking the middle mouse button, 
without having to remember if you copied it in the first window or not.

This could well be one of my favorite things about linux , but I don't 
think it has been documented all that widely yet. I learned it by seeing 
someone do it (on a Sun box) and thinking, "wow," or something like 
that, and I have gotten similar responses by showing this trick to 
people who had been using linux for years and never knew about it, so 
please forgive me if this is considered common knowledge.

If you have a wheel mouse, the wheel is the middle button, and 
clickable. If you have a 2 button mouse, hopefully you checked "emulate 
3 buttons" during your install, which works by clicking left and right 
buttona at the same time to make the 3rd (middle) click.

Now if I could just find a 3-button optical mouse, I'd be all set. If 
anyone here has found one anywhere (I've looked just about everywhere 
with no luck), please enlighten me on where to get one. Plenty of wheel 
optical ones available, but only the trackball variety for 3-buttons for 
some reason, and they always require tedious, delicate cleaning 
maneuvers when things start getting all jerky.

The middle buton is also better for scrolling up and down windows with a 
single click, imho (you scroll to wherever the middle button is clicked 
on the scrollbar - found that trick in the emacs tutorial, btw). It is 
also invaluable when you break away from the gnome/kde taskbar (trough) 
realm and start using various other window managers like enlightenment, 
blackbox, etc.

Oddly enough, the 3-button mouse I have here had M$ logos all over the 
box, but I still haven't figured out what a 3 button mouse would be good 
for in windows, or if the middle button would even have any function. 
doesn't seem to do much of anything on the 2k side of this hard drive, 
anyway.

S.

Joe wrote:

> Any chance you (generically speaking) could add a printer friendly 
> button to you article pages?  I usually read anything more than a few 
> paragraphs offline (on paper).
>
> Joe
>
> Kevin E. Glosser wrote:
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>> Today, we posted our Cedega 4.2.1 review. You can check it out here...
>>
>> http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/staticpages/index.php?page=20050306045044463 
>>
>>
>> Cedega is a commercial version of W.I.N.E. that allows you play 
>> Windows games in Linux. I tested it with World of Warcraft, Half-Life 
>> 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Hope you enjoy it.
>>
>> KEG
>>
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