Squeak 3.2 UNIX - A newbie's plead

Martin Altobello martin_altobello at yahoo.com.ar
Mon May 6 17:03:43 UTC 2002


El dom, 05-05-2002 a las 21:50, Lex Spoon escribió:
> Bert Freudenberg <bert at 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?
> 
> 

"xmodmap" says that mod1 is Alt_L (0x40). My "bash" doesn't understand
"xev". humm... I think I'll just use the right button to get the halo :D


> > 
> > > 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
> 

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