The vnc right-click problem

[Freddy Jensen]

   >From: Mark Rainford <mr "at" jet.uk>
   >Date: Thu Feb 14 2002  5:12am
   >To:   adam <asn "at" mediaone.net>
   >Cc: jensen "at" adobe.com, bobf "at" swamp.ns.cs.boeing.com, fma "at" doe.carleton.ca, vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
   >Subj: Re: The vnc right-click problem
   >
   >This fixes the right mouse button problem for us!
   >
   >Environment: vnc-3.3.3r2 on SunMS Unix Solaris 7, Solaris 8.
   >
   >Many thanks for spotting the Motif tip. We are adding "*.whichButton: 3" to our site-wide login. FYI my Motif 2.1 Reference Manual (O'Reilly vol 6B) says this XmRowColumn widget resource is superseded by another (dissimilar)resource; I guess this ties up with the problem being observed only in libXm since Solaris 7.
   >
   >One thing which does not tie-up is my similar ctrl+mouse problem in openwin xterm(1), but I think that should be ignored: firstly, xterm(1) does not use libXm; second, the problem was different anyway; third, it has now "gone away" for an unknown reason :-(
   >
   >Copied to vnc-list for celebration :-)
   >

Celebration indeed !!

Adding "*whichButton: 3" to my ~/.Xdefaults
file solves the problem.

Freddy
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