Ok Rollermouse Users - I'm looking at you!

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Just got a rollermouse and struggling.

Any advice?

[codemonkeymike]

Raise your sensitivity, use little flick motions not long sweeping motions

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So with the device set to 1200 dpi I find it problematic to click on something without the mouse moving. Do you use the movement bar to click or another finger to click the physical button on the left?

[codemonkeymike]

I use the physical button, like I was using the pointer on a thinkpad.

[Wodan]

I never use the rollerbar as a button ... that just ruins everything. instead I move the rollerbar with my thumbs and mapped the slim "copy" and "paste" buttons as left/right mouse buttons.

I should do a video of that if you can't get an impression yourself ...

[pixelheresy]

I use the roller bar as a button on both my original and with my rollermouse 2 pro. Part of it is to center the thing based on your hand. I usually have my B key lined up with the scrollwheel, so most full-sized boards will seem off-center. It is down to tuning. I only use the left-click button if I am clicking a dragging a lot. Otherwise, I get enough precision... but it takes tuning and getting the hang of it.

[Michael Doyle]

I love my rollermouse but I find that I still like to have the option of having a mouse or trackball on the side and moving back and forth depending on what I'm doing, or where my hands are. So maybe try supplementing your inputs with a mouse if that's what you're comfortable with until you get more used to it.

As a side note, if my hands are in a typing position I like to use my thumb to move and click the rollerbar, but when I'm sat back in a relaxed position I use my fingers to move the bar and my thumb to hit the physical buttons.

[pixelheresy]

I love my rollermouse but I find that I still like to have the option of having a mouse or trackball on the side and moving back and forth depending on what I'm doing

I agree. If I am doing some graphics editing (funsy gamesy stuff in my spare time... last and current job have an entire graphics team, so besides cropping and exporting, I do very little on the job), I do like I having a Logitech M570 trackball (I am one of those ones who love love loved the old Microsoft optical trackballs, so this is the closest modern without dropping a fortune). Also, for gaming of any sort. At work, since (as some of you recall) I have the ridiculous Tipro setup [below] I make due. Which isn't bad, since I am in VIM, a browser, or command-line 99% of the day and I have shortcuts and hotkeys galore.

That being said, I would suggest only having the mouse *physically available* (at home I keep it behind the keyboard) but not reachable. This will force you to learn the Rollermouse and most people who do really really like it. If you are a touchtypist, it is great. The closest other solution for touch typing while mousing is using a *well made* board with an integrated touchpoint [IBM/Lexmark M13 or Unicomp EnduraPro], but that *is* your keyboard and with being able to "throw" horizontally and "spin" vertically, the Rollermouse is a lot quicker and more precise at higher tracking speeds, not to mention additional buttons and a scrollwheel.

[pixelheresy]

The afformentioned Tipro MID monstrosity with Rollermouse.

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OMFG.

My life's work is to make a beamspring version of that glorious thing!

Back to the rollermouse - this may be an indication that I'm doing it wrong but I wish the actual roller was more to the right.

Thanks for the feedback thus far everyone, it's changed it how I'm using it some but it still feel peculiar. Also, I need to work out how to remap this thing.

Specific wanted changes:
i. remap double-click button to middle mouse button.
ii. I wish I could make the middle-roller less resistive.

[pixelheresy]

OMFG.

My life's work is to make a beamspring version of that glorious thing!

THAT would be something!

Back to the rollermouse - this may be an indication that I'm doing it wrong but I wish the actual roller was more to the right.

Thanks for the feedback thus far everyone, it's changed it how I'm using it some but it still feel peculiar. Also, I need to work out how to remap this thing.

Specific wanted changes:
i. remap double-click button to middle mouse button.
ii. I wish I could make the middle-roller less resistive.

I really cannot reach the left button with my right hand on the home row, but can reasonably with everything else. I use my left thumb for the left click when I need to click and drag (and only then). Again, it may just be a matter of style and getting used to it. At work, I type on the left isolinear matrix and the staggered with my right, so my right is usually the only one there. Since I am used the using the Rollermouse almost exclusively with my right hand, this pattern carries over to my use at home, with a more standard keyboard.

I have the buttons (using Contour's tool for Mac) set to left click for the leftmost, right for the rightmost, scrollwheel click and the middle button for button 3 [mapped in BetterTouchTool to trigger Expose] and the two utility buttons mapped to button 4 & 5 [mapped in BetterTouch tool to move Spaces over left and right]. This way, with multiple screens , I can have nice full screen apps and easily switch and navigate through all of it.

With my non-pro at home, I have scrollwheel click disable and scroll press and roll to do the Button 4 and 5 thing, but that is less convenient. I do have Scroll Lock and Pause/Break bound to these functions anyway [on an IBM Model M] so not a huge deal.

There are a lot of options in Contour's tool.

Less resistive, as in the force to scroll the scroll wheel or the roller? Both of mine were second-hand, but both were fine. Perhaps from breaking in? Don't know. There is a thing to tune how hard it is to click the rollerbar, but all of the above are butter smooth and even (after cleaning).

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Less resistive, as in the force to scroll the scroll wheel or the roller? Both of mine were second-hand, but both were fine. Perhaps from breaking in?

Scrollwheel.

There's a configuration tool? I should grab that.