8.3. Mouse (Pointer) Bindings
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### 8.3. Mouse (Pointer) Bindings

This are mouse bindings used in NsCDE:

- Titlebar 1st (left) button left click: invokes Window Operations menu, double click closes (Delete) a window

- Titlebar 1st (left) button middle click: Shortcut for calling Occupy dialog with Go with the window selected by default.

- Titlebar 1st (left) button left click: invokes extended or full version of the Window Operations menu, double click closes (Delete) a window

- Titlebar 2nd (right) button left click: Iconify Window

- Titlebar 2nd (right) button middle click: No Operation

- Titlebar 2nd (right) button right click: Shade (Roll up/down) Window

- Titlebar 3rd (rightmost) button left click: (Un)Maximize Window 86% or up to the Front Panel on the bottom of the screen. Double click (un)maximizes 100%, covering Front Panel and it's EWMH panel area

- Titlebar 3rd (rightmost) button middle click: (Un)Maximizes 86% and makes window sticky or unsticks it depending on window's initial state

- Titlebar 3rd (rightmost) button right click: (Un)Maximizes 86% and makes window raise or lower depending on window's initial state

- Titlebar left click: Moves window on move, raises/lowers on click

- Titlebar middle click: pops up menu with functions to take a screenshot of the window, identify with info (FvwmIdent), xprop(1), and xwininfo(1)

- Titlebar right mouse button quickly raises or lowers a window

- Pointer actions 4 and 5 (mouse wheel) are shading and unshading (rollup, rolldown) a window

- Left pointer click on border or corner raises or lowers a window while move action will interactively resize the window

- Middle pointer click on border or corner will only do lower/raise action, without resize on pointer movement

- Right pointer click on border or corner also does lower/raise action, but on pointer movement moves the window

- Left pointer click in combination with control on border or corner will popup Window Operations Menu as if first titlebar button was pressed once.

- Middle pointer click in combination with control on border or corner will popup Occupy Workspace dialog.

- Right pointer click in combination with control on border or corner calls root applications menu (MenuFvwmRoot) - this rare and border functionality is aimed for difficult situations where there is no other option easily available

- Left pointer click in combination with meta on border or corner will refresh that window.

- Right pointer click in combination with meta on border or corner will reposition window as if Reposition or Alt+F3 was called.

- Left pointer click on icon calls m_IconOps menu, while double click action on the same object deiconifies a window

- Middle pointer click on icon calls m_IconM2 menu

- Right pointer click on icon directly deiconifies a window

- Left click on the root window calls Root Menu whith handy shortcuts for calling visual pagers and window lists. Submenu "Window Operations" will show Window Options actions.

- Left double click on the root window calls Window Operations.

- Middle click calls FVWM `WindowList` super-menu see fvwm(1) for `WindowList`

- Right click calls main root menu MenuFvwmRoot

- Pointer actions 4 and 5 (mouse wheel) will scroll between current up and down pages of the current workspace by 2% if pointer is in the context of the root window

- Control+ left mouse click will call f_CleanRestoreWorkspace function. This will iconify and put into invisible group all iconified windows on the active page. Repeating this action once again, restores all iconified windows back in place quickly and without animation. Windows which were iconified before calling this action or from windows started and iconified after this action are not affected by this function. This is NsCDE smart version of the "show desktop" functionality.

- Control+ middle mouse click will call extended version of the WindowList with additional window info such as page number and window geometry.

  Figure 69. Window List (Extended)

- Left mouse button on border of the shaded Front Panel context will de-shade and reposition Front Panel

- Right mouse button on border of Front Panel will shade or de-shade Front Panel

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