John Coldrick <jc@axyzfx.com> writes: > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 23:21, Jamie Athanassakis wrote: > > I use a sony vaio which has 2 button touchpad mouse. I know metacity > > allows you to resize a window interactivley but only with the MIDDLE > > mouse button (pressing both mouse buttons and the "alt" key and moving > > the mouse doesn't really cut it!!) > > > > Is there a way to change this behavior so that it uses the right mouse > > button instead > > I've found that metacity's shortcuts involving the mouse are hard wired > - not only can you not change them, but you can't turn them off! This > breaks one of our apps, so we dumped metacity. It also causes a lockup > with Houdini(a commercial animation package), so we're not touching it > until it learns to play nicely with apps and the desktop.... > It's nonsense to say the WM should not bind any keys by default (and also nonsense that users should have to change default keybindings to use an application). The only reasonable way out of the problem is to coordinate between the apps and the WM who will own which keys. Anyway, for more elaboration on that see the bug you already found, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79315 I also added a patch there to offer a workaround for the moment. Havoc
