Am 07.12.2016 um 13:08 schrieb Jim Holsenback:
> On 12/7/2016 2:58 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 7-12-2016 6:18, clipka wrote:
>>> Darn, got some pain in the shoulder that tells me to give the arm some
>>> thorough rest... observations:
>>
>> Yeah, you better do that. A couple of decade ago I got that too at work
>> and had a hell of a job to get rid of it (physiotherapy, injections)
>> without any results. In the end, it went away by itself more or less. I
>> switched my mouse hand by the way. I am ambidextrous since then!
> 
> yep switch hands ... about 10 years ago i had to for reasons of a fall.
> reached out to break fall and did a number to my scaphoid. docs wanted
> to do surgery and insert pin but i opted to endure 14 weeks in a cast. i
> quickly got good at doing things left handed. i /still/ do lefty mouse.
> the world is certainly biased to right handiness ... i /only/ found two
> applications (firefox and nix:konsole) that allowed moving scroll bars
> to the left side (which i find rather odd) because it /still/ feels
> awkward to reach across screen to grab scroll bar

Maybe better yet: Get used to /not/ using the mouse. Keeping the hands
on the keyboard /is/ faster anyway, once you know all the shortcuts (and
have defined additional shortcuts for stuff not accessible via s/c by
default).

Also, I guess the context menu key will become my friend now after all.

That fancy Corsair keyboard I got (remember the Coke spillage a while
ago?) may also come in handy now: The 3x6 left extra keys probably make
a fine place to put a left cursor block. Couldn't quite do that on the
old Logitech kb with its meager 2x6 extras.

(Grabbing vertical scroll bars? Is that still a thing, with mose wheels
and all?)

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