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From: mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Not impressed with MacX
Message-ID: <9011290206.AA00343@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 29 Nov 90 02:06:28 GMT
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> MacX is [...].
> So much for the good points, on to criticism which is more fun.

Ain't it though? :-)

> [T]he kludge on the mouse buttons is downright awful.  Given that the
> Mac mouse has one button, how would you simulate the three usually
> found on Unix boxes?

I know this was a rhetorical question, but I can't resist answering it
anyway.

I wouldn't simulate them.  I would have the X server provide a pointer
device with only one button.  That's what you have, after all.

Kludges to support broken clients that blindly assume the presence of
(at least) three buttons on the pointer device only ensure that said
broken clients don't get fixed.

					der Mouse

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