From: Stephen Kellett <snail@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T22:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

In message <20050402080849.GP45443@eris.tenfour>, Dick Davies 
<rasputnik@hellooperator.net> writes
>I find that a bit surprising - what about cut n paste for starters?

Which would the third button do? Cut, Copy or Paste? You'd need 5 to do 
all three.

>Personally I can't understand how you use a UNIX GUI (or a browser for 
>that matter)
>with only 2 buttons. X has used 3 since God was a boy, and

Well I used X daily from 90 thru 94 and answered questions on X11 and 
X11.motif newsgroups (I was Snail). "Der Mouse" and I were the most 
prolific helpers of other X users, until I got RSI, anyway. Look both of 
us up in the archives if Google have them that far back. I never found a 
valid use for the 3rd button. Neither did any of my peers. I guess it 
depends on the config files you have setup? Most of what I knew then I 
have forgotten, if you don't use it/need it, it gets discarded.

>most X window managers have features that are easily accessed with the third
>button - gimp and enlightenment in particular are no fun without at least
>'emulate three buttons' option in your X setup, and firefox has a lot of
>functionality tucked away there too.

I'll take your word for it - I don't use Linux for any of those apps. I 
need to setup a modern Linux box to see how things have changed.

Stephen
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