LinuxLinks Cedega Review >> printer friendly

[Joe]

That works - even clicking both buttons on my touchpad works (I didn't 
know about that) - I'm hooked on touchpads built into my keyboard (on my 
lap) because I'm tall and don't interface well with standard furniture.  
I've never seen a 3 button touchpad.

Anyway, what I like to do at many websites is click the printable 
version of what I'm reading.  Generally, it gets more of it on the 
screen at once with less distracting ads, etc. and I don't have to worry 
about linking to all 15 parts.  Then, if I want to print it, it's one 
print job *and* it keeps all its formatting which is lost when I cut and 
paste into any editors I know how to use (or even worse, sometimes I end 
up with partial HTML source code!)  So even though your suggestion sort 
of works, it doesn't really do what I want.

Joe

Stephen Burke wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> 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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