Keyboard - mouse interface fail on linux install

Chris Farmer chris at krowe.uklinux.net
Sat Jun 1 11:28:47 UTC 2002


Henri,

Sorry for the delay but I've now tested Squeak in Mandrake and these are the results.

I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on a Pentium Pro 200 with 256MB memory. I installed Mandrake straight from CD with no modifications or Kernel tweaking.

The Squeak VM I'm using is from here:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.1beta/linux-unix/Squeak3.1-x86linux-VM.tar.gz

I put it in /usr/share/Squeak

Doing squeak -version produces:

i686-pc-linux-gnu 3.0 #9 XShm Thu May 17 10:02:25 EDT 2001 gcc egcs-2.91.66
Linux citrus.advantive.com 2.2.16-3 #1 Mon Jun 19 18:49:25 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.0/*.so

Using various images gives the following results:

The keyboard [UK variety] is fine with all of these images. The mouse [3 button] is as follows:

Using 3.2gamma 4857 + Zurgle:

Left: 			Desktop Menu
Middle: 			Personal Menu
Right: 			Halo

Using 3.2gamma 4881 + Zurgle:

As above

Using 3.3alpha - 4857:

Left: 			Find Window
Middle: 			Find Window
Right: 			Halo

Ctrl-Left: 			World Menu
Ctrl-Middle: 		World Menu
Ctrl-Right: 		World Menu

Right-Ctrl + Middle Button: 	Personal Menu [That is the Ctrl key on the right hand side of the keyboard]

Using 3.3alpha - 4881

Mouse Buttons as per 3.2gamma 4857 + Zurgle

I hope this helps. I'm certainly no Squeak expert but if there's anything else I can check for you then let me know.

Best regards

Chris 


30-May-02 11:12:54 PM, Henri Salha <ricky.linux at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>Hello everybody,
>
>i am a newbie curious about Squeak, so i downloaded v3.1beta and
>installed it on my PC (i run Linux Mandrake). Everything went smoothly,
>but now i am on the Squeak interface, i have all the windows and all,
>but my mouse and the keyboead seem screwed up. 
>
>That means, that for ex. when i left-click on the background i should
>get this "World" menu, right? It just selects the whole Window with the
>little colored dots around. The right button acts as the left one.It is
>the middle button which lets me select commands. So i thought it was
>just the buttons that were mismatched. But the middle button on the
>background gives me only a "personal" menu. I tried too
>"Ctrl+left-click" it gave me yet another menu "World", but not the main
>one that was described. 
>
>The keyboard also does not respond. Also when i am in a text box (for
>exemple a search or edit box), the keyboard does not give anything, but
>seems to react to commands, as if i were pressing alt+letter or
>ctrl+letter. For example, when i am in the main window, typing 'm'
>directly gives the menu "add a new morph".
>
>Do you have an idea of what's going on?
>
>Thxs
>
>
>






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