Mice for use with Linux

Most any standard wheel or optical mouse should work with Linux with no effort at all, including scroll wheel mice.

Laptops can often be taughth to emulate a scroll wheel using their builtin touchpad or TrackPoint. There's a page on the Thinkwiki site which explains how to emulate a scroll on Thinkpad laptops.

Scroll wheel tips

There are a number of hidden uses of the scroll wheel waiting to be discovered. Try these:

• Use the scroll wheel over "tabs" area of the Konqueror browser to quickly switch between them
• Use the scroll wheel over a volume icon to raise or lower the volume.