Delete key and two-button mouse on Linux
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Tue Feb 20 23:30:32 UTC 2001
You didn't say you wanted a GUI program.
No, I didn't. My point was an ease-of-use thing. I have no idea what
the (negative half moon) key is _called_, but if I could point to its
picture, maybe I could find out, or maybe just use it anyway.
Use xkeycaps (a frontend to xmodmap) if you want.
I think it is installed on Suns by default,
Not in this straight-out-of-the-box Solaris 2.8 it's not.
(Don't you just love the way I keep being pointed to X utilities that
are either not in the standard $PATH or not there at all? Welcome to
the wonderful world of X. I just hope MacOS X doesn't imitate _that_
part of UNIX.)
if not, you can get it at http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps.
Thank you very much. I am greatly indebted to you for telling me about
this fine program. 60 students would have been thrilled to the very socks
to have it last week, so I shall ask our sysadmin to install it.
Still, you probably do not want to use xkeycaps in every
session, but write the changed settings into your .xmodmap (or
whatever) file.
I really must have been unclear. I'm not talking about *my* setup,
which actually works fairly well. I'm talking about *temporarily*
changing setup so that I can demonstrate something on *someone else's*
machine. For that, permanent changes to .xmodmap would be quite
inappropriate.
> What do you mean "misconfigured"? I never said that my X system or anyone
> else's X system was misconfigured, only that they *differ*.
I call a different keymapping between X and the console a
"misconfiguration".
You aren't quite reading what I wrote.
Here it is again:
I never said that [my X system] or [anyone else's X system]
was misconfigured, only that [they] differ.
That is, person A has a consistent configuration, person B has a
consistent configuration, and person A has to help person B, so needs
to change *one* thing and have the entire environment adjust, then
change *one* thing back to what it was. If you just use stty, or you
just use xmodmap, *then* things become inconsistent.
Also, if you want X to send BackSpace and it is configured to
not do so, it's not configured correctly for your needs.
Remember, person A and person B are *different people*, as well as using
different machines.
> and that it would be well if Squeak adapted automatically.
Nope. Squeak as an X application should use the X keymappings and nothing
else.
In a recent thread about GUIs, I thought there was agreement that Squeak
should be *better* than X.
X does its job. There is room for improvement, of course.
Yeah, like performance, consistency, documentation, you name it.
I look back on the days when I used a Xerox Dandelion with regret;
a simple snappy window system on what was basically a 16-bit machine
that could run rings around this 64-bitter, with documentation you
could actually read in one human lifetime. (*AND* it handled a 16-bit
character set with dynamically selectable virtual keyboards. On a
machine with 4MB of physical memory and a hard limit of 32MB virtual.)
I have two dtterms, netscape, and a clock. For this I need 212 MB of
virtual memory?
Big as it is, Squeak is DWARFED by the X monster.
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