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From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple mice and X windows
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Date: 30 Nov 89 00:14:21 GMT
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In article <21012@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
>"""" How will Apple get a Mac ONE button mouse to function as if it
>"""" were an X-type mouse with several buttons?
>"""
>"""AUX X-windows uses the mouse button as the left button in the X. Left and
>"""right arrows on the keyboard are mapped to middle and right mouse buttons
>"""respectively.
>
>Could they not have used the Option, Shift, Control, or Command keys in
>combination with a click?  (i.e. Shift-click is left, Click is center,
>Command-click is right?)
>
>
>Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)


Nope, because lots of the window managers require you to be able to modify
mouse clicks with keyboard modifiers.  If shift-click is left-mouse, then how
do you shift-left-mouse?

Josh
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