Hi Forum!
Im thinking of buying a rasperry pi and my question is. Do i need to buy a mouse? or can i work with only the keyboard.
-
boltbubble
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:00 pm
Re: USB-mouse
Hi, welcome to the forums.
The Raspberry Pi usually runs one of the various distributions of Linux, most commonly Debian Wheezy with the LXDE Graphic User Interface (GUI).
I do not know how well LXDE works with keyboard navigation only. I do think it requires a mouse. If you are good at linux, you could probably find a GUI that worked well without a mouse.
If you are going to do nothing but use a command line interface via a terminal or ssh, you can live without a mouse.
The cheapest usb mouse works fine. You can probably get one at a second hand store for a dollar/pound/euro/franc/etc so I would suggest getting one even if you do not plan to use it.
Cheers.
The Raspberry Pi usually runs one of the various distributions of Linux, most commonly Debian Wheezy with the LXDE Graphic User Interface (GUI).
I do not know how well LXDE works with keyboard navigation only. I do think it requires a mouse. If you are good at linux, you could probably find a GUI that worked well without a mouse.
If you are going to do nothing but use a command line interface via a terminal or ssh, you can live without a mouse.
The cheapest usb mouse works fine. You can probably get one at a second hand store for a dollar/pound/euro/franc/etc so I would suggest getting one even if you do not plan to use it.
Cheers.
-
pluggy
- Posts: 3635
- Joined: Thu May 31, 2012 3:52 pm
- Location: Barnoldswick, Lancashire,UK
- Contact: Website
Re: USB-mouse
Working via ssh (headless) you don't need a keyboard (or a monitor) either.
Don't judge Linux by the Pi.......
I must not tread on too many sacred cows......
I must not tread on too many sacred cows......
Re: USB-mouse
There's only really a need for a mouse if the software you're using needs one. There even exist keyboard-driven window managers for X, but it's perfectly possible to use the pi mouseless without X (or, as pluggy says, with nothing more than a power supply and ethernet cable, although in that case you do need another computer)