Mouse button emulation [was: Re: sounder 8 install report]

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:30:13PM +0200, David Allouche wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:14 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: 
> > On 2004-09-13 17:04 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> > > But I think that Right Apple/Clover and the small square Enter key next
> > > to it would be good for Middle and Right mouse buttons respectively.
> > 
> > Please don't. The left and right apple keys on my iBook G4 (German
> > layout) send exactly the same keycode, and I need this key for AltGr
> > (to be able to enter @ ~ { }  [ ] and so on.
> 
> Seconded.
> 
> At least on my iBook, both Cmd and Alt keys send the same keycodes which
> afaict are associated to LeftMeta and LeftAlt. The Fn-modified variants
> send RightMeta (not very useful) and RightAlt (very useful). 

Hm. To clarify, are you saying that Fn-Alt is already used?

Is there any keycode that *isn't* used? I'm despairing of finding one
here.

> > > (I fear that the little enter key sends the same keycode as return does
> > >  though)
> > 
> > Not on my iBook, the little enter key does nothing at all.
> 
> Here it's numpad-enter. Which is probably very useful to people who are
> a lot into numpad usage, but useless to me.

The problem is that people who do use the numpad will be very surprised
to find the Enter doing something radically different.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]