Right click on linux (or ctrl-leftclick in windows?)

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Fri Sep 14 20:24:41 UTC 2007


Though my laptop works like that. May be a setting for the touchpad
though...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Gary Chambers
> Sent: 14 September 2007 9:22 pm
> To: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Subject: RE: Right click on linux (or ctrl-leftclick in windows?)
> 
> 
> Does a two button mouse generate a middle button when both 
> are pressed simultaneously on Windows when 3 button mouse is 
> selected for the VM (don't know anymore, since I've had no 2 
> button mice for a long, long time)?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Andreas Raab
> > Sent: 14 September 2007 9:09 pm
> > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> > Subject: Re: Right click on linux (or ctrl-leftclick in windows?)
> > 
> > 
> > Damien Cassou wrote:
> > >> How many other people do this? If most people do, then 
> it would be
> > >> preferable to have this by default in the image.
> > > 
> > > It's not possible to swap the preference by default 
> because Windows
> > > users will start complaining :-).
> > 
> > Easy to fix (and I'm all for it if the default preference is
> > enabled in 
> > the image): Make the switch coincide with a release and 
> release both 
> > image and VM together with the approporiate settings. The 
> only reason 
> > things are the way they are now on Windows is that many people have 
> > two-button-mices (or touch pads) and without that mapping 
> > they don't get 
> > context menus at all (which sucks badly).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >     - Andreas
> > 
> 
> 




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