{"id":1283,"date":"2011-12-18T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2011-12-18T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:38:10","slug":"handling-right-clicks-on-a-macbook-running-linux-the-2011-awesome-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/handling-right-clicks-on-a-macbook-running-linux-the-2011-awesome-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling right clicks on a macbook running Linux – The 2011 Awesome Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 years ago I had written a post about handling right clicks on a macbook running linux<\/a>. Along with changing my window manager of choice, I think I’ve found a better\/more elegant solution to that problem.<\/p>\n

On my computer’s workspaces one will normally find one or two browser windows open, some instant messaging applications (skype,pidgin), an mp3 player (audacious2) and terminals. Lots of them. I need them to ssh to the servers I monitor\/administer and for coding (with vim of course!). I even use one for my email client (mutt). So I need my terminals to be as efficient as possible. After many trials over the years I’ve decided on using urxvt<\/a> as my terminal of choice.<\/p>\n

About a month ago I gave awesome<\/a> a try and since then it’s been my window manager of choice instead of fluxbox<\/a>. The reason behind this is mostly fluxbox’s inability to tile terminal (call me urxvt) windows efficiently while changing resolutions. I mostly use my laptop with an external 23” monitor but I wanted to be able to tile my terminals independently of using only my laptop’s screen or both laptop’s and the external one. In fluxbox you can make a window appear on specific area of the screen, so I could open 3-4 terminals on a specific workspace\/monitor. Resizing though one of them to fit some monitoring program more efficiently didn’t resize the others ‘automagically’ as well. So, I had to manually resize all open windows of that workspace. Yes, this is horrible from a usability point of view, luckily I didn’t have to do it that frequently. So, I gave awesome a try for its tiling features. I really miss though fluxbox’s tabbing features<\/a> that I constantly used along with it’s amazing keybindings flexibility (Rant: isn’t it stupid that you have to write your keybindings in lua for awesome and in haskell for xmonad ?) but the tiling capabilities of awesome are currently more important to me.<\/p>\n

So while my previous solution for right clicking without a mouse worked pretty well for fluxbox, in my new awesome world I’ve replaced it with xautomation<\/a> tools. First of all, one needs to install xautomation tools <\/p>\n

aptitude install xautomation<\/code><\/p>\n

Then find clientbuttons<\/em> configuration part in the default ~\/.config\/awesome\/rc.lua<\/em> and add this line to it:<\/p>\n

awful.button({ modkey }, 2, function () awful.util.spawn(\"xte 'mouseclick 3'\") end)<\/code><\/p>\n

restart awesome and try modkey + 3 finger tap on your touchpad<\/em>. You should be seeing a right click “menu”.
\nIf you don’t know what 3 finger tap is or how to configure it, read the 2009 article.<\/p>\n

That’s it, no more xbindkeys + xvkbd for awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 years ago I had written a post about handling right clicks on a macbook running linux. Along with changing my window manager of choice, I think I’ve found a better\/more elegant solution to that problem. On my computer’s workspaces one will normally find one or two browser windows open, some instant messaging applications (skype,pidgin), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[422,33,107,192,595,424,27,191,123,423,418,420,419,421],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-awesome","tag-debian","tag-fluxbox","tag-keyboard","tag-linux","tag-lua","tag-macbook","tag-mouse","tag-right-click","tag-tiling","tag-xautomation","tag-xbindkeys","tag-xte","tag-xvkbd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t