{"id":31,"date":"2011-02-08T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:41:23","slug":"new-scratching-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/2011\/02\/08\/new-scratching-device\/","title":{"rendered":"New scratching device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I finally managed to release a new version of <a title=\"terminatorX homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/terminatorX.org\">terminatorX<\/a>, which had <a title=\"Ubuntu Bug #469365\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/terminatorx\/+bug\/469365\">been broken for quite a while<\/a> as some changes in either gtk+ or X.org broke the mouse grabbing code. Anyway, just recently I bought a new mouse as the left button of its predecessor was worn out. I decided to go for a high precision device, so I ended up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razerzone.com\/\">Razer<\/a> laser mouse (Lachesis).<\/p>\n<p>At first I was stunned that the\u00a0manufacturer actually\u00a0labels the device as a &#8220;weapon of mass destruction&#8221;, but hey I use with a piece of software called &#8220;terminatorX&#8221; &#8211; so who am I to judge. Once you get used to the high resolution, the mouse really is a very precise input device &#8211; and it does help operating terminatorX quite a bit. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=razer_lachesis&amp;num=1\">guys from Phoronix gave the mouse (or an earlier version of it) a test<\/a> and liked it, too, however they were disappointed that Razer does not provide official Linux support. While this still holds true today, I have to say that my experience with the device under Linux has been excellent so far: you plug it in, it works perfectly an you can switch the resolution with the two buttons on top.<\/p>\n<p>Some might be disappointed that there is no fancy user interface allowing you to tune and configure the device &#8211; I appreciate the fact that I don&#8217;t have to configure anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I finally managed to release a new version of terminatorX, which had been broken for quite a while as some changes in either gtk+ or X.org broke the mouse grabbing code. Anyway, just recently I bought a new mouse as the left button of its predecessor was worn out. I decided to go for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}