Mac, 3-Button Mice, et al

[Jonathan Morton]

>This topic seems to be well-versed in the archives, except that the
>nearest occurrence of it being address is about 4 or 5 months ago,
>with a "real soon now" resolution time. Since its not resolved in the
>current downloadable, I'll ask it again:
>
>Is there ANY ETA for usable 3-button mouse support in the Mac viewer?
>I'm having a bitch of a time pasting to my *NIX server from my Mac at
>home. If the problem is people to test the new code, sign me up,
>because right now, I'm about to start Virtual PC, just to get to a
>usable version of VNC. ;-)
>
>Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything the VNC team has done,
>and it certainly makes my life easier, but if the talked-about
>codefixes could be released, it would make my life even easier. ;-)

I don't know how well the standard Mac viewer supports it, as I don't use
it often enough (maybe i should...).  I understand that the Purple Shark
viewer does support three-button mice through the standard modifier-button
kludges.  Simply set the buttons to use option-click, command-click or
whatever, and then set the viewer to interpret option-click etc. as
different mouse buttons.

the unix boxes i have access to don't let me run Xvnc, which is a bummer.

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org   (not for attachments)
uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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