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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

Also on the 2 buttons...if you plug in a 2 button or wheel mouse in OS
X, it Just Works.

Like my Microsoft Optical Mouse Blue, with 2 buttons and a wheel, no
drivers or anything necessary.

and on OS X, the few times that I have completely locked the GUI, I
was almost always able to SSH in and kill the "loginwindow" process,
forcing the user to log out, and regain control of the box

~ian


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:50:34 -0500 (EST), Alan MacHett
<machett AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Tech_Notes/Mac_Keys.shtml
> 
> Except at Matusiak's house, I haven't used OS X, so I can't speak for it,
> but...
> 
> + on Ctrl-Alt-Del:
> well, as far back as I can remember, Macs have always had a key combo for
> just such a thing.  granted, it didn't give you a dialogue window to
> choose which program to kill; it simply killed the active/most recent
> program:
>  Cmd-Opt-Esc
> 
> + on [Cntrl-Alt-Del]*2:
> and Macs have always had a key combo for shutdown/reboot, too:
>  Ctrl-Cmd-Pwr / Ctrl-Cmd-Opt-Pwr
> 
> + on 2nd mouse button:
> why?  I'm a fan of simplicity, less is more.  besides, Mac has always had
> that, too, just without the extra button -- hold down the mouse button for
> more than a second or two and a dialogue box springs up.  duh.
> I will admit, though, that I'm a big fan of the scrollwheel.
> 
> + on the command line:
> This wasn't mentioned in the thread, but I thought I'd bring it up.
> http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html
> Macs have long had a built-in command line interface; but it was meant
> only for developers or ubergeeks, not as a regular interface.  Cmd-Opt-O-F
> would open an Open Firmware user interface utilizing Forth, the Open
> Firmware language; it's meant for tweaking the system.
> Funny story: long before I knew about Open Firmware or even much about
> Unix, and long after I'd grown accustomed to the GUI, I accidentally
> pressed Cmd-Opt-O-F.  My reaction was something akin to "Oh shit! what the
> hell have I done?"
> 
> -Alan
> 
> 
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