[Xquartz-dev] Alternate fake-3button modifiers

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Thu Aug 14 07:24:51 PDT 2008


For the record, it is customizable by setting the following keys in  
your org.x.x11 defaults:
fake_button2
fake_button3

You can set it to any of the stings:
"shift"
"control"
"option"
"command"
"fn"

On Aug 9, 2008, at 11:51, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Viv Kendon wrote:
> []
>> Right-click (button 2) is command-click in Tiger.
>
> Viv, please don't confuse this even more than it is already. Long  
> before
> Windows came along with its 2-button mouse, X11 was made for 3-button
> mice where buttons 1, 2, 3 are left, middle, right.
>
> By all means make this configurable, but Jeremy, please don't make
> ctrl-click = button2 or button3 by default. It is needed for
> ctrl-button1. Until now, fortunately, I don't see this happening in
> 2.3.1_beta1, I see it only in the wrong text in the Preferences, where
> it is written that one should "Hold Option or Control while clicking  
> to
> activate the middle or right mouse buttons".
>
> Please, please, don't do this!
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
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