[comp.sys.next] - twoButtonsBetterThanOne {return YES;}

stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) (02/07/90)

The Real Reason Two Mouse Buttons Are Better Than One.

It was bound to happen. I had been noticing the worn area on the left mouse 
button for a while. Nine months of 12 hour a day hacking had taken its toll
on the poor switch. And zap, right in the middle of triple clicking a line of
text, the button switch gives out, in a Mousedown state,no less...

Do you realize how helpless you are without a mouse? You cannot switch contexts 
without a pointing device. I cranked up my mac, got a terminal up and 
proceeded to find the correct NX default to switch buttons. 

This line and a reboot has got me up again:
 
 dwrite NeXT1 MouseHandedness Left
 
also, be sure that the buttons aren't slaved with:

 dwrite NeXT1 MouseButtonsTied No


 	andrew				"Objects considered harmful"

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