Comment by rcarmo
2 years ago
I tried Plan9 as a minimalist desktop. I soon realised that three-button mouse chording isn't doable in this decade, and wish someone had written a Platinum-like window manager to replace rio.
2 years ago
I tried Plan9 as a minimalist desktop. I soon realised that three-button mouse chording isn't doable in this decade, and wish someone had written a Platinum-like window manager to replace rio.
> I soon realised that three-button mouse chording isn't doable in this decade,
The scroll wheel on any wheelmouse is a button and you can click it as well as spinning it.
All wheel mice are also 3-button mice.
Try doing that on a trackpad--but if I wanted to use a mouse, the chording is too cumbersome.
On my work MacBook Air, I installed a FOSS app.
https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Sonoma
Works well, but I miss the physical middle button on my Thinkpads.
The chording isn't really cumbersome, just unfamiliar. You get used to it quite quickly with a few tens of minutes of practice.
Forking Rio to create a Twm clone would be nice.
It's been somewhat done (there are a couple of forks out there, but nothing usable or maintained).