Re: Three buttons mouse
Re: Three buttons mouse
- Subject: Re: Three buttons mouse
- From: Tim Cutts <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:56:23 +0000
On 15 Jan 2005, at 9:08 pm, Keith Whaley wrote:
Keith Esau wrote:
Why not just buy a 3-button mouse? Logitech has one for $15.
(I hate the Apple 1-button mouse. It is way too limiting.)
I don't find that true...
I've never had a 3-button mouse with my Macs, since '86, and while
I've had an occasional interim PC with multi-buttons on the mice, I
find a single button Mac perfectly workable.
Press the single mouse button and hold, and invariably a small menu
will come up, and depending on the application your cursor is in, it
covers almost any command you can think of, that a mouse button press
might provide...
That's fair enough, for Mac applications, but many X11 applications
expect multiple button mice. As Noah has discovered, the multi-button
emulation only works to an extent; some X11 applications (even xterm)
require the use of modifier keys like Ctrl with the secondary mouse
buttons. That combination is impossible using button emulation, since
Ctrl is already taken, so you can't do a Ctrl-Button-2, for example.
If you need to do that, you really do need a multiple-button mouse.
For the pure Apple applications, having a multi-button mouse is
definitely a matter of personal preference, but for X11 a multi-button
mouse really is essential.
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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