GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 559833
Very hard to set "CTRL-click" to emulate right click in Gnome
Last modified: 2021-06-05 16:32:01 UTC
In Mac OSX, control-clicks are used to emulate right-clicks. When moving to Linux/Gnome, it would make Mac users' lives a lot easier if they could enable this functionality. However, there is currently no easy way to configure this in Gnome. Bug 320226 requested that the Gnome developers add Mac OS9-style mouse emulation (long click = right click) to the "Accessibility" tab of the Mouse Preferences. They saw fit to implement this request, even though few people have used Mac OS9 in the last several years. Could you also consider adding Mac OSX-style mouse emulation? This might be useful to a lot more people. One option would be to put it in the same place as the other fix (e.g. a "Trigger secondary click via CTRL-click" option in the Mouse Preferences Accessibility Pane). Other information:
There were accessibility reasons for adding that option, it wasn't because MacOS 9 had it. I don't know if we'd want to make MacOS X-style emulation a prominent option in the a11y settings (probably not), but in any case it's up to the developers of mousetweaks to actually support that option before we even have to think about adding an option. ;-)
This option is intended for people who use specialized input hardware with only one button (like eye-tracker + switch). Mac-mouse support is a nice side effect, but not the primary use case. Adding another flavor of that feature would be overkill in my opinion. Moreover, having to press an additional modifier would make it useless of a11y users.
Hi Gerd I have a question : If someone create a patch for this feature, do you integrate or reject it ? Thomas
Thomas, I still think it would be a redundant feature. Besides the "long click" option of mousetweaks there are also 2 keyboard shortcuts to access the context menu. [1] And as mentioned in #320226 reserving <Ctrl> + Button1 would cause conflicts with existing apps. eg. GIMP, Inkscape Personally I'm not a fan, but if the usability team or the control-center maintainers think we should add it then a patch would be very welcome. [1] http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/2.29/keyboard-skills.html.en
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