3-button mouse and Mac viewer

[Charlie McLachlan]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Eric L. N. Jensen wrote:

> >> Also, is there any planned support in the Mac viewer for using
> >> option-click, command-click etc. to emulate the other mouse buttons?
> 
> and then Charlie McLachlan wrote:
> >
> >???
> >If your viewer doesn't do this already then something is very wrong.

> Where is this documented?  After a tip from someone else, I found it under the
> "show options" button for opening a new connection.  But it's not mentioned
> anywhere else (that I could find) and there doesn't seem to be any way to

You only need to access the options if you don't like the standard
behaviour of using alt for the middle button and command for the right
button. But, point taken about the documentation. It'll be included in the
next version. <LAME EXCUSE> It's the same way Java emulates three buttons
and the same way most other Mac programs do it. It seems to be the
"standard" way of doing 3 buttons, so I thought people would know about
it. Sorry. </LAME EXCUSE>

> access it *once you already have the connection opened*.  (I can understand
> that there might be a technical reason why it might be hard to *change* the
> behavior once the connection is opened, but it could be useful to be able to
> find out what the key mapping is.)

There is no technical reason at all. The next version will have better
support for user configuation of mouse buttons as this seems to be the
major gripe people have with the present viewer. 

> Suggestions:  (1) Mention this feature somewhere in the docs (unless it's
> already there and I missed it). 

It isn't but it will be.

> (2)  Allow the user to find out the key
> mapping once the connection is open, perhaps in the "Symbol reference" box
> under the Apple menu.

Sit tight for the next version of the viewer which will include all this
and more.
 
> On an unrelated note, how does one find out what version of the unix VNC
> server is installed?  It would be nice to have a "-v" or "--version"
> command-line switch like many other programs have.

Look in the log file $HOME/.vnc/<desktop name>.log which should have the
version as one of the first lines.

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