Re: Three buttons mouse
Re: Three buttons mouse
- Subject: Re: Three buttons mouse
- From: Noah Slater <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:14:16 +0000
Damn!
This is what I suspected. Is there no way to remap the emulation
buttons? Surley this would make it possible in the interim while I
purcahse a new mouse.
Thank you,
Noah Slater
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:56:23 +0000, Tim Cutts <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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