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Logitech Cordless Desktop EX100
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2 5164 01-15-2006
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100% of reviewers $43.82 8.0



Description: "Cordless, Spill-resistant Keyboard and cordless optical Mouse."

Has 4 of those little "quick keys" for "my home", "back", "E-mail" & "Calc" as well as "mute" and "volume up" / "down".

Can be connected using PS/2 or USB and comes with an optical mouse, keybaord and receiver.

The UK layout has everything I'm used to apart from a "scroll lock" key (don't know what that is for anyway) and a weird "home / end / page up / page down / delete / insert" layout. The receiver has lights to identify if "num lock" "caps lock" and "Scroll lock" are on or not. The keyboard, mouse or reciever make no indication that they are "in use", i.e. no light when you press a key, move mouse etc. which may be a problem when the batterys are running low unless it lights to tell you as much. The mouse takes 2x AA and the keyboard 2x AAA betterys @ 1.5v (all included) and the keyboard comes with a wrist rest.

The layout is pretty standard, but the keyboard is very flat, even when rased up, but has a nice motion when typing. The mouse is comfy to hold and has a scroll wheel. Both are black (with my model) as is the receiver, this has a semi-transparent plastic case.

Mine came with a 5 Year Guarantee.
Keywords: optical mouse, keybopard, wireless, USB, ps/2
Connection Type: PS/2, USB


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Old 07-16-2005, 07:49 AM   #1
jollyjoice
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Gentoo 64
Posts: 383
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $43.82 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.12-gentoo-r2
Distribution: Gentoo AMD64



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I am only giving an 8 as when I first tried this using the USB connection the mouse would only move up/down. This may be down to my computer but my old belkin worked no problem with USB. Will try again later and report back if it works.

The keyboard is flat, only way to put it. But it has a nice smooth action and is nice to type with. The layout is a little weird as they have tried to squeeze the keys together a bit more, I dare say I will get used to this though.

Hotkeys work ok with this prog: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-misc/hotkeys
Needs some tweeking if you don't use mozilla (like me)

Connecting is a fiddle, you have to press the button on the reciever, then on the mouse, wait 20 secs, then do the same with the keyboard. Seems a bit of an overly complicated system to me, but it is working no problem after my first attempt.

This was £25 from Dixons in town, and seems to be a nice little setup. The shop also offered the £40 M$ kit, but said they were unsure if it would work with Linux as I had mentioned this to them. Seen as this was much less expensive I went for this and am quite happy with it.
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Old 01-15-2006, 07:48 AM   #2
MarvinR
 
Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

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You can get the extra functions keys working with keyTouch. Because keyTouch doesn't support this keyboard yet, you will have to create a keyboard file for it. This is done easily by using keytouch-editor. Documentation for keytouch-editor is found here: http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/keytouch_editor/
Send your keyboard file to marvinr(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net so that other users do not have to create a keyboard file.
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