spontaneous menu change

Milan Zimmermann milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca
Fri Nov 26 06:15:18 UTC 2004


On November 25, 2004 03:25 pm, you wrote:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 8:34 am, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > As Bert suggeted, this sounds like Linux VM problem. I just tried on
> > Windows and no problem there.
> >
> > It's hapenning on all VM's on my Suse 8.1, Squeak VM 3.7b-5 #2.
>
> I don't know that this is a "problem"; we're not even looking at caps lock,
> as I recall.
>
> Instead, we are seeing the SHIFT key being pressed while the CAPS LOCK is
> on (that is, it is acting as a SHIFT lock).

You are right ... Caps Lock should act as Shift and it does ... It's just I 
did not readily expect Shift to modify Mouse Clicks in a "normal" (FWIW) UI, 
but if it is used, it may. Makes for some surprising behaviour if one does 
not pay attention to keyboard lights when operating with mouse :)

Thanks Milan
>
> And many menus (the world menu and the text editor menus) do something
> different when SHIFT is on.




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