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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by tedunangst »

mmmm wrote: post #45
DarkShikari wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button, and it's a modern Dell. Naturally I use a real mouse when I'm on a desk, but remember that not everyone has a middle mouse button.

Try clicking both right and left touchpad-button on your laptop. At most (all?) laptops it will open the link just as if you had middle-mouse-clicked it.

That works in X, but I've never seen that work in Windows. And when I have used it, the timing was only about 9/10; the other times I get a left-right click combo, or a right-middle combo, or something else equally disastrous considering how the X clipboard works.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#112

Post by LukeShu »

tedunangst wrote: post #110
colonel_panic wrote: post #71

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Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

You and me both. Apparently I'm expected to go out and buy a new laptop with a middle mouse button so I can open new tabs properly.

If you left and right click at the same time, it will middle click.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by joeblau »

jwallaceparker wrote: post #100
WiseWeasel wrote: post #82

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Requires two hands, but I often find it easier to control-click on links to open in a new tab, and that still works in this case.

I do this too. CTRL-click to open a new tab. That is NOT working for me on a Mac.

Or if you're on a newer laptop, you can press down with two fingers on the touch pad.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

repsilat wrote: post #104
colonel_panic wrote: post #71

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Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

Though it's falling further and further behind mainstream browsers, Konqueror seems to take a principled stand on some of these things - I can still right-click on the github logo normally, and my keyboard isn't intercepted by flash plugins. I think there's a small market for a browser (or browser plugin) that's all about client control. Querying mouse position, hijacking keypresses and showing popup windows and moda…

Double right-click brings up the regular browser menu on FF on Linux FWIW.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#116

Post by sjs »

armandososa wrote: post #107
colonel_panic wrote: post #71

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Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

I'd guess that people who wants to open a link on a new tab but doesn't know how to middle-click or command + click is indeed a very small minority.

I doubt it's a matter of knowing or not knowing about those, it's just convenience. If my hand is not on the mouse then I will just Cmd-L gith, but if my hands are not on the keyboard then I will right-click Open In New Tab.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#117

Post by pbhjpbhj »

lwat wrote: post #94
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #39

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The actual images aren't quite what I would call "hi-res" - 512x512px at 72dpi for the Octocat, for example. Seems like if they are going to all this trouble they should include a few sizes, not just a few formats...

You don't need to specify DPI when you're talking about pixels already, that pic will be 512x512 pixels at any DPI.

Specifying the dpi gives the print size of the image. So basically instead of printing very small and hi-res this will print as larger but with low-res; so it makes sense as the claim is that the images are not hi-res.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by tedunangst »

LukeShu wrote: post #112
tedunangst wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You and me both. Apparently I'm expected to go out and buy a new laptop with a middle mouse button so I can open new tabs properly.

If you left and right click at the same time, it will middle click.

Except when it doesn't. My thoughts on that are in another comment.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#119

Post by lwat »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #117
lwat wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need to specify DPI when you're talking about pixels already, that pic will be 512x512 pixels at any DPI.

Specifying the dpi gives the print size of the image. So basically instead of printing very small and hi-res this will print as larger but with low-res; so it makes sense as the claim is that the images are not hi-res.

We're talking about on-screen images, not printing them.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by simonbrown »

tedunangst wrote: post #111
mmmm wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try clicking both right and left touchpad-button on your laptop. At most (all?) laptops it will open the link just as if you had middle-mouse-clicked it.

That works in X, but I've never seen that work in Windows. And when I have used it, the timing was only about 9/10; the other times I get a left-right click combo, or a right-middle combo, or something else equally disastrous considering how the X clipboard works.

I use Windows 7 and it works for me.
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