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

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Fri Sep 14 20:21:37 UTC 2007


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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