Squeak 3.2 UNIX - A newbie's plead

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Sun May 5 16:35:25 UTC 2002


On 2 May 2002, Martin Altobello wrote:

> Now the mouse wheel works fine and Squeak's looks is more familiar, but
> the second button brings up the halo, which isn't the same behavior as
> in Windows, you get a pop up menu (e.g. in the FileList, you can right
> click, then "file in"). 

If by "second" you mean the right button, yes, that's the default
behaviour in X. 

> Also, alt + left click doesn't bring up the halo, but alt + shift + left
> click. 

If that's true, it's a bug.

> Is that the proper behavior for the linux version? It's not big a deal,
> as I was "clicking" I discovered that if you press ctrl + left click you
> get the pop up menu too. 

Yes, Ctrl-Click emulates the yellow button (menu), while Alt-click should
behave as blue button (halo).

-- Bert




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