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Mouse resolution

I make gobs of mistakes typing WC submissions.  I have to go find them with the mouse and fix.  My mouse with a red light on its bottom moves around a phony wood grain plastic table top, herkie jerky.  Thinking this resolution could be improved I tried mousing on a purple printed paper menu from the Colombina restaurant that recently opened.  Much better, the herkie jerkies are gone.....but the paper moves on the slick desk top.  


 

Somebody probably knows what the best surface is for a red light mouse.  And that would be........?  Should it be a uniform color, textured, walnut, oak, maple??  Not knowing how the mouse works I am at a loss to make an optimum selection.  


Re: Mouse resolution

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Re: Mouse resolution

The red light mouse works by having a couple of photo sensors looking at the reflection of the red light from the surface that you are moving the mouse over. As the intensity of light changes at the sensor, the mouse driver counts them and determines how much the mouse has moved. Highly reflective surfaces can confuse them. My favorite mouse pad has been one that was essentially thin suede with a backing (non-slip) base. The texture of the suede reads really well for the mouse movement and the suede nap keeps the bottom of the mouse clean. The ones with a textured plastic top surface have worked pretty well for me. There are lots of them with nice prints under a textured clear top surface. The ones with a cloth top surface work pretty well for regular optical mice. They can get a little iffy for the very fast-moving gaming mice. I have not bought a mouse pad since I switched over to the thumb-ball type optical mouse. So, I do not have a link for you.

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