Conflict with Ctrl key in MacOS?

[claesg]

After a switch from Windows to Macintosh (running Mac OSX 10.6), I wanted to be able to run a dear old text editor, NoteTab Pro, which is only available in a Windows version.

I did an installation using Wine, and after some initial issues in finding the supporting files to the editor (the path to them turned out to have 14(!) levels), everything was running smoothly.

But pretty soon the MacBook started to show an irritating habit of making every mouseclick a right-button click, regardless of which button was pressed. The behaviour was somehow connected to the Ctrl-key. Pressing that key would momentarily solve the problem.

After re-installing the system umpteen times, and systematically excluding applications, I have now a growing suspicion that it is my Wine-based NoteTab at the bottom of it. Mac computers have for historic reasons (i.e one button mouses) used Ctrl as a a switch between left- and right-click. At the same time, my Windows application internally still uses Ctrl as modifier for frequent key-initiated commands, as opposed to the Mac's Cmd-key.

So, my question is if anybody can confirm my suspicion that there may be a conflict concerning the Ctrl-key when installing Windows applications in a Mac OSX environment?

TIA //Claes

[James Mckenzie]

claesg <[email protected]> wrote:

Sent: Jul 15, 2010 4:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Conflict with Ctrl key in MacOS?

After a switch from Windows to Macintosh (running Mac OSX 10.6), I wanted to be able to run a dear old text editor, NoteTab Pro, which is only available in a Windows version.

After re-installing the system umpteen times, and systematically excluding
applications, I have now a growing suspicion that it is my Wine-based NoteTab at the
bottom of it. Mac computers have for historic reasons (i.e one button mouses) used Ctrl
as a a switch between left- and right-click. At the same time, my Windows application
internally still uses Ctrl as modifier for frequent key-initiated commands, as opposed
to the Mac's Cmd-key.

The problem here is that the Cntrl key is mapped through the Mac keyboard driver to be a right-click if you use anything other than a Super Mouse (it has several buttons on it and when installed provides right-click functionality.) Thus, using the Cntrl key ANYWHERE you use the mouse will become a right click. Now, here comes the fun part, you MIGHT be able to use the CMD key as the CNTRL key. Try it. Apple's X11 maps it that way (sometimes.)

So, my question is if anybody can confirm my suspicion that there may be a conflict
concerning the Ctrl-key when installing Windows applications in a Mac OSX environment?

I have not run into this with Cntrl based accellerators, such as cntrl+c, cntrl+v and even cntrl+F1. However, if you are trying to use the mouse and then cntrl+<anything> you will run into this behavior.

This is NOT a Wine problem but the manner in which the mouse is deployed on a Mac.

James McKenzie

[doh123]

never seen anything like it happen with Wine in any version of X11 on Mac OS X...

does the program your running have some type of a Ctrl Lock function thats getting turned on?

Have you tried using a much newer and better version of Xquartz than the X11 Apple provides? X11 on Macs map their own keyboard usage... its not the normal system keyboard... for the most part.