Control-click not working as expected with helloSystem as a VirtualBox guest

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Control-click not working as expected with helloSystem as a VirtualBox guest #69

Closed grahamperrin closed 3 years ago

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

Whilst aiming to troubleshoot #61 …

Environment

FreeBSD-CURRENT VirtualBox host, KDE Plasma 5
helloSystem VirtualBox guest, Falkon running

Issue

Control-click does not have the required effect for in-page links.

Expected:

the link in a new tab.

Actual result:

nothing

Given the transposition of keys, I tried Alt-click. This, too, fails to open the link in a new tab; it's for movement of the VirtualBox window.

Related: #68

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Are you talking about Falkon? ⌘-Clicking on links opens them in new tabs for me. (With ⌘ currently being mapped to Alt, which may become configurable in the future.)

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

Alt-click is

… for movement of the VirtualBox window. …

Now I see: it is, more generally, for movement of windows in KDE Plasma 5. Whilst I don't see it amongst the shortcuts for KWin:

– I assume that Alt is the modifier.

I guess that for helloSystem to be tested smoothly as a VirtualBox guest where the VirtualBox host is on FreeBSD (or uses a non-Mac keyboard?), we need a reasonably smooth way to get an appropriate mapping i.e. #68

probonopd commented 3 years ago

I think the Alt-Drag is a Xorg wide feature. Since Alt and Ctrl are currently swapped on helloSystem, it is Ctrl-Drag here.

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

From https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/issues/68#issuecomment-753464390

setxkbmap -model pc101 -layout gb,us -option compose:ralt

– suits me, personally ☑ however the bigger picture should include people whose first impressions of helloSystem will be based on a virtual machine run of the live ISO. The web browser is prominent and if Control-click does nothing out of the box, some of these people will get not the best first impression.

Maybe leave this issue open until after automated keyboard detection has reached a fair level of maturity …

probonopd commented 3 years ago

The goal is achieved imho when:

A Mac user can use an Apple keyboard "blind" without looking at the keys and things work as expected
It works exactly the same using a PC keyboard (again, without looking at what is printed on the keys)

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

☑ working as expected (at least in Falkon) after disabling modifier key swaps: