Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!rmtodd From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: MacX meta key stuck Message-ID: <1991May8.214517.1098@servalan.uucp> Date: 8 May 91 21:45:17 GMT References: <1991May6.221941.20325@midway.uchicago.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 21 makmur@paul.rutgers.edu (Hanz Makmur) writes: >I really wonder why Apple put these buttons in the place of arrows. >Apple are listening ??? I wish it could be made user definable or at >least make it to option-click or command-click... Nope, they *can't* do that and still claim to be shipping an X server. Look, the "option" key acts as a Meta key to MacX, right? Well, Meta-left- mouse-button is a perfectly valid X event, and it's perfectly permissible to write an X program that expects that. So they can't use option-click to represent one of the missing mouse buttons. They could make command-click equivalent to one of the missing mouse buttons, but that still leaves you one button shy of what X programs tend to expect. So they're going to have to use some keys on the keyboard to fake out the missing mouse buttons. Either that or ship a 3-button mouse with each copy of MacX, which would probably adversely raise the prices.... -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp "Try looking in the Yellow Pages under 'Psychotics'." -- Michael Santana