Mouseemu uses strange defaults
Bug #120102 reported by
Tim Hull
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: mouseemu
When mouseemu is used - which it is in default installs on the MacBook - the F11 and F12 keys are used by default as middle-click and right-click.
This is a very odd and unintuitive choice for a default - most users don't expect to use F keys to do mouse clicks. Can a saner default be used in the next version? I figure left-Command (Apple) and right-Command are good choices - and Command-click would be good if the combination was workable. That would be closer to what is used on OS X (which is ctrl-click).
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Left-Command and right-Command generate the same scancode and thus cannot be distinguished by the operating system.
We chose F11 and F12 ages ago, long before mouseemu, and it's been that way for six releases of Ubuntu on powerpc now as well as a release on Intel Macs. I can't help feeling that changing it now would be worse than just leaving it alone.