[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.1_beta1

[John Koren]

Hi

I have reported what appears to be the the same problem in x11-users
on May 19 under the heading "3-button mouse emulation", but no one
responded with a confirmation of it.

Here is what I wrote then:
"I think this used to work correctly but now it does not.

With the 'Emulate three button mouse' checked in the X11.app
Preferences, one should be able to emulate middle and right mouse
buttons by clicking while holding Option and Command. Indeed this
works if you only want to simply highlight and paste in the xterm. But
if one wants to access other special features of xterm by pressing
control-middle button (i.e, conrol-option-click in 3-button emulated
mode) or control-right button (control-command-click), the emulation
does not work."

This problem persists and is very inconvenient when using my powerbook
G4 (Aluminum).

-John

>> The other thing is that I could have sworn that the emulate three button
>> mouse used to use option and command. It now seems to use ctrl and option.
>> This makes it so that you can't do the menus in xterm. I have not had to
>> use a one button mouse is a really long time but I swear it used to work
>> that way. I wonder if I can work around i with xmodmap?
>
> Hmm... but control-click is right click for everything else on the OS.  I
> could've sworn it was ctrl in Tiger.  I don't have a Tiger system right now,
> but there's one that I'll have access to next week, so I'll tripple check.
>
>> Also the ctrl key does not seem to be very reliable.
>
> As I mentioned, the only bugs I've addressed were the ones I mentioned.  The
> mouse emulation and stuck modifier bug have not been addressed yet.
>