Re: opening a program with the middle button

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 9 Jun 2006, at 16:52, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51, David Prieto wrote:
> [...]
> > It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch
> > the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click
> > applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea
> > (middle-click), epiphany.
>
> Under AmigaOS you could do it that way IIRC:
> right-click to open the menu, then without releasing the
> right-mouse-button use the left-mouse-button to do your  
> multiselections.

Yep, that was handy alright... in fact you can do that in GTK menus  
too, but only if you use the keyboard: Space will check the focused  
checkbox/radiobutton menu item and keep the menu open; Enter will  
check it and close the menu.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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