Isaac Wingfield wrote in news:isw-
90075C.11173127102003@netnews.attbi.com:

> Macs come with a one-button mouse. Some apps (Mozilla is one) deal
> elegantly with that by popping up a little menu when you click-and-hold
> briefly. By selecting an item from the menu, you can have far more than
> even the three choices a more button-endowed mouse could provide.
>
> When I use Moz in Linux, I find myself click-holding a lot, before I
> realize that it won't work. I sure wish it did.
>
> Is there some kind of addition or modification I could install on YDL to
> get that behavior?

You get that choice during the YDL install setup process, I think the
default is the F11 and F12 keys to hold down when you click with a Mac
mouse to get a "right" and "middle" button - I'm not certain about the
keys, I use a wheelmouse optical on my Mac - but I seem to recall something
along those lines as being how to get more functionality from a one button
mouse and YDL (and other PPC Linux's).

Take a look at your mouse configuration, you'll see it's just a parameter
to set, if it isn't already set, that is.

In article ,
Mike Dee wrote:

> Isaac Wingfield wrote in news:isw-
> 90075C.11173127102003@netnews.attbi.com:
>
> > Macs come with a one-button mouse. Some apps (Mozilla is one) deal
> > elegantly with that by popping up a little menu when you click-and-hold
> > briefly. By selecting an item from the menu, you can have far more than
> > even the three choices a more button-endowed mouse could provide.
> >
> > When I use Moz in Linux, I find myself click-holding a lot, before I
> > realize that it won't work. I sure wish it did.
> >
> > Is there some kind of addition or modification I could install on YDL to
> > get that behavior?
>
> You get that choice during the YDL install setup process, I think the
> default is the F11 and F12 keys to hold down when you click with a Mac
> mouse to get a "right" and "middle" button

I know about that, but it's not what I want. In Mozilla - Mac, when I
click-and-hold on a link, a little menu drops down, and I can choose to:

Open the link in a new window

Open the link in a new tab

Save the link

Download what the link's pointing to...

.... and several other things.

It occurred to me that something like that would be a really nice way
for a one-button mouse to work in Linux -- far better than having to use
your other hand to press some oddball key combination, IMHO.

I had hoped that someone with programming skills would have thought so
too.

thanks

Isaac