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

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 16:10 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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?


Colin, remember from our debug session about the Spanish keyboard
problem, the AltGr key is the Fn + Alt and we need it for |@#\~½/][}{«»
and some other chars.

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

There was mouse emu that let's us handle the mouse like MacOSX does, one
key + click and you get more mouse buttons but I was not able to test it
yet.

Cheers.
-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:carlos at pemas.net || mailto:carlos at gnome.org
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia - Spain
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