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Don't bother with keyboard shortcuts or extra buttons - just lift and bang the mouse down to re-centre the cursor (on the primary screen, if you have a multiscreen setup).
Being old enough to have been brought up on ball mice this is a natural reaction when the pointer sticks and I now find myself
doing this when the cursor disappears, as it seems to quite frequently with optical mice.
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"Bang the mouse down" to do anything seems eminently sensible. It may even evolve to double-banging for special functions. |
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if you use a graphics tablet or possibly some of the earlier optical mice with the special pad, this happends as soon as you lift the mouse (puck) off of the pad (tablet). |
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Not to be confused with pertussive cursor centering which re-centers the cursor when you cough. |
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Would software that predicts when there is going to be a problem and corrects it in time be known as a precursor? |
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I know someone who shouts oaths before anything bad has even happened, he's definitely a precursor. |
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If these oaths cannot be printed here, could they be considered percussive? |
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If I get tired of your puns and throw the
mouse at you it might be concussive. |
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Bang! ---------------------- !!!!> |
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Wrong sort of percussion. |
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