GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 638670
Emulating secondary click always also generates primary click
Last modified: 2021-06-05 16:31:59 UTC
In Mouse Preferences, I activate Accessibility / Simulated Secondary Click. With this configuration, if I press my mouse button, the mouse pointer changes color from top to bottom. Once the bottom is reached, the secondary click is evoked, which is fine. However, the primary click is also invoked in this case. If I intended to perform the above steps in order to invoke the right-click menu of a Gnome panel applet, this results in displaying said menu, as desired. However, this also results in executing the corresponding applet (because of the primary click, which is also invoked). It would be great if the primary click could be avoided when emulating secondary clicks.
Hi, Thanks for your interest in mousetweaks. We are aware of the odd behaviour of the simulated secondary click, that sends a primary click before sending the secondary click. Unfortunately, we cannot do anything about it, because as far as we know, there is no clean way to discard real button down events. Cheers Francesco
*** Bug 570598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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