Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
After serving me well for the last five, six years, my trusted IntelliMouse Explorer broke down a few days ago. The mouse was the first one with an optical sensor instead of a mouse ball. I pre-ordered it and has always been happy with it. But when the left mouse-button gave in there was not much to do but to buy a new one.
Logitech MX518
I decided on Logitech’s MX518. It’s a bit smaller than the IntelliMouse, so it will take a while to get used to. But so far I like it. And by using the x11 input driver evdev and xbindkeys all mouse buttons are working as I like them to.
While playing with the xorg.conf I had some problems with gtk programs, so: if you don’t want your mouse to stop working when you start a gtk program, forcing you to restart the x-server, don’t remove the following line from your xorg.conf InputDevice section:
Option "CorePointer"
