[TriLUG] third mouse button

[Tom Bryan]

On Monday 26 November 2001 12:55 am, Ed Hill wrote:

> The old X convention is:
>
>    B1:  select (hilight) text
>    B2:  copy previously hilighted text to current position
>    B3:  menu
>
> and its being somewhat superseeded in recent apps 

Even older apps, such as xfig, take over the middle mouse button for 
application-specific functionality.  I notice that KDE shows the the 
"windowlist" pop-up menu when one middle-clicks on the desktop.

---Tom