Re: Request for a small feature in Apple's X11
Re: Request for a small feature in Apple's X11
- Subject: Re: Request for a small feature in Apple's X11
- From: Haroon Sheikh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:38:12 -0800
Please read the FAQ (link at bottom of each email) or read the man page
for Xquartz. There is a way to customize the modifier keys used to
emulate the mouse buttons. This is the current support until (and if)
this level of customization appears in the GUI.
haroon
On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 08:08 PM, Richard Johnson wrote:
Early on, I used the Fink version of X11 and was rather happy with it.
When Apple came out with their own version of X11 I moved to that
because I felt it would be better supported and it seemed faster to
me. In general, I have been very happy with it. I only have one
minor issue with it, which I wish Apple would address at some point.
When Apple's X11 was first introduced I suggested that I would like to
be able configure what modifier keys to use when emulating a 3 button
mouse. I believe I was told that it was being looked into for the
future. What I was really alluding to was the following, and I
probably should have been more specific.
In the Fink installed version of X11 I was able to configure the
Option key along with the mouse button as the Right most mouse button
(button 3) and I was able to configure the Option and Command keys
together along with the mouse button as the middle mouse button
(button 2). The advantage of this was that I avoided using the
Control key or the Command key alone as a modifier. Not using the
Control key as a modifier for the mouse has obvious advantages. Not
using the Command key as a modifier for the mouse has the advantage
that keyboard shortcuts such as Command-C can still be used in order
to Copy X11 text into the MacOS X application space. It worked really
well! Much better than the current Apple X11 method of not having a
Right mouse button at all or having to select Copy from the menu every
time. (Also, the advantage of using Option for the Right button
instead of the middle one is simply that most X11 programs use the
left and right buttons more than they do the middle.)
I would love to have this kind of configurability in Apple's X11. Is
there a chance?
Thanks for a great program and wonderful OS so far, by the way! You
people are doing a great job!
/raj
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