Bert Freudenberg bert@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de wrote:
On 2 May 2002, Martin Altobello wrote:
Also, alt + left click doesn't bring up the halo, but alt + shift + left click.
If that's true, it's a bug.
Perhaps the "alt" key is bound to something unexpected. The VM is currently keying in on "modifier 1". You can type "xmodmap" to see which key symbols will give you a mod1, and then you can use "xev" to see what keysyms each alt key results in. You can tinker with xmodmap to change these mappings if something seems to be amiss. Or perhaps you will be able to see an improved rule that Squeak could use?
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).
By the way, in some versions of the Unix VM, ctrl-click will come in as ctrl-yellow. In the most recent SF VM, ctrl-click is translated to yellow with *no* modifiers. The SF version allows you to truly operate with just one mouse button. However, it does take away ctrl-click. I don't know what the proper behavior should be; but if the mapping happens at all, it seems like the "ctrl" modifier should be removed.
(Likewise with alt, but alt-blue seems to do the same thing as blue by itself, anyway, so it doesn't matter in practice.)
-Lex