Hi Henri,

I think you have one of the new VMs installed that are supposed to work
with Linux and MacOS X. They use a rather weird modifier key mapping.
Try one or more of the following:
1) Start the vm with a --help command line parameter and find out what
switches you may use to obtain a more sensible behavior (like --swabbtn
--swapmod)
2) Try to find a less recent vm (like 3.1a-4146)

Henri Salha 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