Its the little things that bother me about Linux

[coolred]

I have been toying with differant linux distros lately, I want to learn to use them as well as I do windows if not even better. But little things annoy me. Hopefully you can help me fix this one.

In windows when using firefox say I am browsing the forums, and then want to go to the AT homepage, or any other page. I just click in the address bar and it highlights the current text causing what I type to overwrite it.

In linux(using Suse 9.2 right now, but it happens in many if not all the other distros I have tried)and firefox as well as other browsers, when you click in the address bar it does not highlight the text. I mean I obviously can highlight it myself or delete it or whatever. But its the little things that make stuff so much easier. Hopefully there is a fix for this.

 

[coolred]

Oh and the back/forward buttons don't work on my intellimouse explorer optical mouse. Even though it is recognized as an intellimouse explorer in linux.

 

[bhanson]

Figures... the way Windows highlight's stuff pisses me off. 🙂

 

[Nithin]

use ctrl-l to go to address bar and highlight.

 

[Spencer278]

It is like that because of Linux's completely retard copy and paste.

 

[Nothinman]

Linux's (technically XFree's) copy/paste is extremely convenient.

 

[Panther505]

Yeah where else can you have a cli that you can highlight what you want and have it available to middle click?

 

[Looney]

Doesn't double clicking on the url highlight it? That's what i do, and never had a problem with it. And my forward and mouse buttons work as well.

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: Nithin
use ctrl-l to go to address bar and highlight.

I could do that, but again I would prefer it to work the way I am used to it, with windows.


Harcore, yes double clicking does highlight it, as I said in the first post, and if thats what I have to do, then I will have to get used to it, but I want it to do it with a single click.

 

[halfadder]

Originally posted by: coolred

Originally posted by: Nithin
Harcore, yes double clicking does highlight it, as I said in the first post, and if thats what I have to do, then I will have to get used to it, but I want it to do it with a single click.

In Safari on Mac OS X, you have to triple-click! 🙂 One click = insert cursor, Double click = select word/segment, Triple click = select line.
Thankfully in Firefox on Mac OS X, you only have to single click to select the entire line.

 

[bersl2]

Make sure the InputDevice section for your mouse in your XF86Config or xorg.conf file contains the following:
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

Then, create a file /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap, and put into it:
pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5

This will make back/forward work on the next reload of the X server.

And congratulations, complaining about single vs. double click of the address bar makes you the prissiest son-of-a-bitch I have ever seen. I don't know exactly where that code is, but I suppose this will point you to some places to look:
1. Download a copy of the source code & unpack to some directory.
2. Run the following command: egrep -iR '(address|location|nav).?bar' $TOP_DIR_OF_SOURCE replacing that variable with the correct location.

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: bersl2
Make sure the InputDevice section for your mouse in your XF86Config or xorg.conf file contains the following:
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

Then, create a file /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap, and put into it:
pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5

This will make back/forward work on the next reload of the X server.

And congratulations, complaining about single vs. double click of the address bar makes you the prissiest son-of-a-bitch I have ever seen. I don't know exactly where that code is, but I suppose this will point you to some places to look:
1. Download a copy of the source code & unpack to some directory.
2. Run the following command: egrep -iR '(address|location|nav).?bar' $TOP_DIR_OF_SOURCE replacing that variable with the correct location.

dang..he did his hw

 

[Nothinman]

The setting browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll looks like it'll do what you want, I didn't want to restart my browser to verify it though.